Reporters back in the day were like responsible hunters. They would peddle their bullshit while occasionally adding what little truth they knew, maintaining the semblance of neutral information providers.

Modern journalism has this breed of reporters outcompeted by a new one that has discovered that that semblance of neutrality was unnecessary.

Judith Miller wasn't a 20 year old when she fabricated tales. I have seen articles in Bloomberg News I know are fabricated (I had access to the raw data misreported) and the reporters aren't children.

Of course the oldies are sad. Their personal breed of lies have now been outcompeted by those of superior liars.

They write articles decrying this particular breed of overfishing the ocean. But they are just obsolete.