That's a function of time and technology, and our demands as consumers, not journalistic skill.

If a journalist has an entire day to gather facts and write the story before it's published in the newspaper the next day, it's going to be a lot more accurate than the realtime demands of "we are hearing reports of a bomb threat in the vicinity of..."

> Journalism was in a much better standing a few decades ago

Many more people paid for journalism a few decades ago. People who only consume free media are obviously going to see more junk.