That, as much as anything else, is the mark of a journalistic birthright...
... and in keeping with what today laughably passes as journalistic "integrity" I wasn't dealing with the entire quote, just the most blatant and obvious of your mistakes.
Peter Jennings who set the standard of the day for journalism was a high school dropout, he anchored the ABC news desk for over 20 years from the early 80's to circa 05 and shared the desk for several years prior to that...
...he was the best of the day,[for whatever that's worth] in fact, only Cronkite and Murrow should be mentioned in the same breath with him.
they have nothing of the sort, nor is it a requirement that they do, never once in the late 20th century history of American journalism has principle gotten in the way of a journalist...
all they have is semantics that allow the socially educated to believe everything the media feeds them.
is Rachel Maddow a journalist?
In the industry that is simply referred to as, "journalistic license"...see how that works?