That’s the status quo when it comes to journalism today.
Do an in depth analysis of the data and talk to experts with varied opinions? Nah....
Find an anecdote that pulls at the heart strings and use vague language to insinuate it’s a “crisis”? We have a story!!
Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.
Is the target audience people that explicitly think anecdotes are more important than data? I preferred it when that cognitive error was at least hidden.