"How could that idiot reporter bungle the story so badly?! This isn't accurate at all!"

As it turns out, journalists often get the most basic facts of the story wrong and freelancers on a deadline tend to falter when they have to summarize in a few paragraphs what others have spent decades researching.

This isn't surprising. In fact, it's to be expected. After all, overworked "reporters" and freelance writers usually aren't experts in whatever arcane subject their editor has assigned them this week. They're just being paid to churn out some copy on a given subject before moving on to the next piece.