It isn’t THE solution, it is A solution. The title is wrong.
More likely an important component of a more complex strategy. Oversimplification is really a shitty thing in journalism these days.
That’s not a “these days” thing. Even back to the Vietnam War, Cronkite’s famous analysis of the Tet Offensive was woefully off the mark. While it helped get us out of Vietnam, which was a good thing, it was not actually accurate at all.
Journalism is basically an impossible job in the modern world. The gulf between the level of complexity the experts are at, compared to the general public, is just too great. On virtually every topic now. And they need to be fast too, now? It’s just asking too much.
I get what you say about the complexity of communicating on complex topic but that’s literally their one job isn’t it? Exception of investigating journalism they are supposed to make information available to the masses.
I like to thing that we could hope that the industry will eventually strive to reach that objective. I think that to some extent newer generations are doing that, albeit on non traditional platforms. Many a specialised youtuber offers troves of information and qualitative analysis on nice topics.
