Any news-press people out there?

"Nothing was found" and "nothing exists" are not the same. What you're describing is essentially "click-bait" editing making its way to the print.

Journalism in print used to be so that you could scan the paper and get the gist of what is going on. Read the headline and 1-2 sentences, and you have an idea of the story, and if you're interested the details follow. By the time you were reading the paper, you had already handed over your dime or quarter or whatever.

Today they make money for each ad displayed, and the longer you're on the page or the more pages you go to, the more money they make. So if they put the whole story in the first few sentences, you wouldn't keep going.

This is not a mistake. This is deliberate.

It is not all their fault. People today are much less likely or willing to pay for journalism. It costs a lot of money and time for a journalist to spend months digging up details and connecting the dots playing detective for an as of yet unknown story. Months of work, 1 day of news. Maybe if it is biggest enough, a few days on the talk shows. But a story that just echo's what someone else did, that's free work and also makes 1 day of news. You can see where this is going. When your motives are profit, you need to optimize and that means you aren't doing hard hitting journalism.

This is why I love the BBC and CBC and such. They are funded by the people for the people. If they want to spend 4 months investigating Wth is going on, they can.

 

ProPublica is willing to do reporting for the long haul. They're not click bait artists, although they do end up partnering w/USA Today (Gannett) at times. Good example was their car insurance redlining piece about prices being much higher for people in CA, IL, TX zips that are heavily minority.

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I'm wearing clean clothes today.

No.....not because it's Monday, but rather because I have a closet full of clean clothes that I can wear.
I clean my clothes with something called a washing machine because even though it's possible to take them to a nearby river and beat them on a rock, washing machines work better.
We did not evolve out of the Stone Age because we ran out of rocks......

See also:

Buggy whip.
Whale oil.

It's inconvenient for the people who make the buggy whips and Melville's harpooners, but there are winners too (horses and marine mammals for example.....)