If you look for the truth we will shoot you.
Journalists get a bad rap for writing inaccurately but they do ask questions and seek out answers. Maybe biased ones written with incomplete understanding, but if there are enough different questions and answers then readers can pick out a thread of truth by comparing and contrasting the details.
Interesting article. When I get back to Tokyo, I will seek out some of my serious journalist friends and talk to them about this.
Kuri, I'm not sure how your comment ties to the article... The point most underscored there is that where answers are concerned, information flow has been choked to the point of there only being a single souce from which to get them. As for questions, there good questions, and then there are the questions asked (allowed to be asked?) These two groups often have very little overlap. Finally, "journalists" most often seem to be doing the very best they can, but it is a rare case in which reporting goes straight from the "journalist" to you without significant editing for content. More ranting on this last will be forthcoming.