The best description of journalism i ever saw was something like (badly paraphrased): "Journalists are interlopers writing as experts about things they do not remotely understand."
Any time I've read an article that covers something where I actually have some knowledge, it's invariably wrong in some key respect or omits key facts. I try to keep that in mind when reading (or, even worse, watching) news about events where I don't have any prior knowledge.