The situation with the press is far worse than you think for structural reasons, it's a bit naive that you're asking this kind of question at all.
I'm old enough that I've had an experience where an "event" (French theorists would say l' événement) happens and
-- I watch it live on TV
-- I watch it again on the evening news
-- I read about it in the daily paper the next day
-- I read about it in a weekly paper (say The Economist) next week
-- I read about it in a monthly paper (say The Atlantic) next month
And then 25-30 years later a book comes out that is meticulous researched, they looked over all the primary sources, they interviewed everyone they could, etc. The picture of l' événement that I get from that book is entirely different than the picture that I recall having at the time, some of that is drift in my memories, some of that is the failure of my meaning making at the time, some of that is errors of commission, omission, connotation and denotation on the part of the media. I take the blame for my memory (although everybody's memory drifts over time), but the media + the meaning making process are fairly considered to be a system, and it doesn't work well.
The situation with the press is far worse than you think for structural reasons, it's a bit naive that you're asking this kind of question at all.
I'm old enough that I've had an experience where an "event" (French theorists would say l' événement) happens and
-- I watch it live on TV
-- I watch it again on the evening news
-- I read about it in the daily paper the next day
-- I read about it in a weekly paper (say The Economist) next week
-- I read about it in a monthly paper (say The Atlantic) next month
And then 25-30 years later a book comes out that is meticulous researched, they looked over all the primary sources, they interviewed everyone they could, etc. The picture of l' événement that I get from that book is entirely different than the picture that I recall having at the time, some of that is drift in my memories, some of that is the failure of my meaning making at the time, some of that is errors of commission, omission, connotation and denotation on the part of the media. I take the blame for my memory (although everybody's memory drifts over time), but the media + the meaning making process are fairly considered to be a system, and it doesn't work well.
To back this up
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Armies_of_the_Night
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_on_the_Campa...
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_Fictions (anything by Didion!)
-- https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/News/The-Inf... (1971 book that predicted you'd be reading the news on the WWW around 1980 or so -- the author prepared a report for the RAND corporation and was really angry and bitter that the media industry didn't want to make the investments to make it happen... and thus was the origin story of a legendary critic of the media who is more famous for https://www.amazon.com/effete-conspiracy-other-crimes-press/... and https://www.amazon.com/New-Media-Monopoly-Completely-Chapter...)