I was using the word ‘journalist’ in the widest sense. However I appreciate that those who have knowledge of what they write are small in number and that number is, probably, diminishing. Such writers are generally – but not always – confined to the specialist media, namely those publications and websites whose readers are knowledgeable and thus expect material published to reflect that fact. The ‘teenage scribblers’ now seem endemic in the general media – local and national newspapers, television, radio and online – but as a large proportion of the consumers of the output of such media don’t know and don’t care about facts, why should those for whom they write adopt an approach which is any different?