Perhaps they are not the sharpest knives in the drawer to begin with, and then they are required to write on a hundred different subjects with little or no time for research.

A great mentor of mine when I was a boy told me that throughout my life, whenever I read a newspaper story that I knew something about, I would be astounded at the errors, not to mention the pro-government bias.

He was right. Reporters are frequently incompetent, always rushed, often bad writers, and know only one thing for sure: the state, its moral code, and its economic interests are to be protected. Thus their attitude towards Ron Paul.