The first problem - the professionalisation of journalists and the generation of a breed of professionals who know how to write but not what to write is a problem that affects other developed countries. Journalism (under "Information Sciences") is an undergraduate degree in Spain. Though, granted, a secondary education in Spain is better rounded than in the US, this doesn't mean people graduating with a 5-year degree in "Information Sciences" know a whole lot about anything other than media. Then there are things like El Pais' "Master's in Journalism".

Maybe journalism should be taught at the postgraduate level (or, in Spain, as a "2nd cycle" degree, that is after 3 years in another subject - for instance, one could do 3 years of physics and then transfer to a 2nd cycle in Jounalism to become a Science writer).

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo