Journalists who devote far more time and space to...

"Journalists who devote far more time and space to a sensational trial or celebrity scandal than they know it deserves - because they think it will sell - are like the cartographers who drew England or Spain the size of Greenland because it was popular. It may make short-term economic sense but it misleads the traveler and eventually destroys the credibility of the mapmaker."

— Bill Kovachs and Tom Rosenstiel, The Elements of Journalism