That's not at all an insult to the industry I've spent twenty years in. Reporters are dumb because they are trained to see that as their job, which is not unreasonable. Objectivity IS a kind of stupidity, the controlled confrontation of one's own inherent foolishness, like a Dunning-Kruger vaccine.
Something similar is true of science and scholarship, of course, but their rigor makes it qualitatively different (better, and expensive) as a way of knowing. Journalism doesn't seem to me to always require such rigor lol. And when it doesn't the effort at objectivity naturally devolves into naivety