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News reporters cannot keep continuing to hide behind their imaginary [oblivious] ignorance.

It might not always seem so, but they do regardless, in much the same way the general public does. The public isn’t completely ignorant either, at least in the sense of not having been exposed to the truth.

No0o, the problem here is more fundamental:
News reporters don’t want to think about it……for if they did it would require them to take action, to depart from their [normal routine] comfortable mode of thinking and working habits.

Information alone doesn’t move people out of their herd behavior. It takes something that reaches them emotionally, such as the victimization of themselves or someone close to them. Most people today insulate themselves from the mass of humanity by reducing it [them] to abstractions from which they can remain emotionally detached.

Reporters learn to do this on a regular basis, and as they would argue…..“to maintain their objectivity.”

Government officials do this quite often as well, which is how a pleasant, but fastidious, guy (who exhibits ‘outstanding morals’) can go to work and do terrible things to large numbers of people thru corrupt legislation, or how a soldier can drop a bomb that kills thousands or millions of nameless [innocent or not] people.

Not many people can be [or choose to be] “involved in mankind”. Most people prefer to live in denial or disengagement, and adjust their thinking to reconcile it to their behavior. (See Leon Festinger’s “cognitive dissonance” principle.)

There are significant differences between the roles of the reporters and the public here though………

The reporters have to actively block much of the voice of truth that resides within them, for if such ever tried to break through (because of the signal-to-noise ratio of public perception), the corporate/government corruption and abuses that they ‘observe’ would become too confusing and distracting.

The public, on the other hand, is kept propagandized and misled by the media (false signal), bombarded with massive amounts of advertising and other noise and kept ever more busy with survival (denied signal reception), so that only those who are most attuned to and moved by the truth (or have received a dose of a very ‘personal signal’) will react to condemn the condition of liberty and justice within this country.

The public at large is a passive participant in the destruction of the rights and liberties we justly possess in America, while many reporters — not all the reporters, of course — are part of the machinery that is destroying the Constitution and our country.

It is important to give an accurate and fair assessment of the thinking and motives of those who are on the other side of the constitutional line, but it hardly serves us to be very understanding of them or even to tolerate them.

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The uncritical acceptance of conspiracy theories does not reflect well on the objectivity of theorists.

I am not necessarily a conspiracy theorist.

I do not believe in little green men [just blue] or any other such nonsense [except that which I accept].

I do not seek to discredit this or any administration. [Except by the will of their own idiocy]

Even though my motives are not strictly political, the subject matter of my exacerbated reaction certainly is.