Newspapers operate under a lot of constraints, the big one being financial. Shareholders/owners want to see it make money. To do that it needs two things, readers and advertisers. Lose readers and lose advertisers. Lose advertisers and you're fucked. This is why I feel newspapers are slow to scrutinise businesses. They don't want to put off potential advertisers.
Because of the general trend over the last few decades of decreasing sales of newspapers they have to make cut backs in the number of journalists they employ. This means the ones that are left are stretched and it stops them doing a more comprehensive job. Many stories are just re-wordings of PR and press releases. Journalists don't have the time to check everything with multiple sources (and in any case doing that is likely to dampen the story a bit such as the Mancini/Bellers bust-up one).
Newspapers still have to be very careful what they print. If they fall foul of libel law it can be very costly (usually in an out of court settlement). So they aren't the pack of lies people on here make out. But more often than not they are too open to exploitation by people with an agenda thus leading to one-sided stories or the worst type of PR manufactured story.
Never believe verbatim that what you read in a newspaper is the whole truth but it is likely to contain at least half the truth.
Because of the general trend over the last few decades of decreasing sales of newspapers they have to make cut backs in the number of journalists they employ. This means the ones that are left are stretched and it stops them doing a more comprehensive job. Many stories are just re-wordings of PR and press releases. Journalists don't have the time to check everything with multiple sources (and in any case doing that is likely to dampen the story a bit such as the Mancini/Bellers bust-up one).
Newspapers still have to be very careful what they print. If they fall foul of libel law it can be very costly (usually in an out of court settlement). So they aren't the pack of lies people on here make out. But more often than not they are too open to exploitation by people with an agenda thus leading to one-sided stories or the worst type of PR manufactured story.
Never believe verbatim that what you read in a newspaper is the whole truth but it is likely to contain at least half the truth.