Originally Posted by highthief

But how is that any different from students or journalists or anyone else reading a printed book or magazine article and treating what is written there as gospel? It's what generations of well-trained pupils have been doing for professors and teachers who demand obedience to established doctrine.

If anything, I'd argue that, in many circles, people are questioning things more rather than less, given the prevalence of Internet hoaxes, faulty info, etc.

The challenge in media circles is that there is such an enormous pressure to get articles out right away that journalists and editors may not be fact checking as often or as thoroughly as they should.