Maggie's Farm

"... few journalists have the skills to analyze"

You can stop right there. No need for further qualification of the statement.

In the past, reporters often had experience in some other trade or means of self-support before they became reporters. The process of becoming a reporter was an apprenticeship. Then "journalism schools" came into existence. Their graduates know all about how to write convincingly and are fed a politically correct line about what to write, but little about how to investigate and base what they write on independently verifiable facts. So what we get are fantasies woven around opinion about how things should be rather than statements about how they are. And often the people writing these things haven't a clue as to how to tell the difference, or even that there is a difference and that they should be reporting the latter, not the former.