Important observation. Over the past several years, younger journalists have started to imagine themselves telling stories that further a particular agenda. They seem not to grasp that their job is to report the news. That includes understanding why people think the way they do. https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1324080652078227456

This is driven by many forces: The youngs have been educated at colleges that disparage objective reality. The market has been moving away from traditional news for ages. Their employers' business models rely on niche markets that expect opinions to be validated, not challenged.

Then there's the psychological. They prefer *not* to understand. Understanding is said to be normalizing (the demented, buzzword of our demented era). Understanding leaves open the possibility that one might be forced to shed one's cartoonish ideas about other people.