In America the general view is that journalism is "the easy major" in universities, chosen mainly by kids who are too stupid to hack it in something more challenging. Of course, this then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, in that stupid kids gravitate towards journalism, and therefore professors have to teach accordingly. Ideally journalists should be aware of the nuances of the meanings of words. In reality, at least in the US, they just use whatever comes to mind, ignorant of what the word might mean to others. There are a couple elite journalism schools where the cream of the crop learn, the ones who get the eight figure contracts at the big name outlets. Then you have the rest. Internet news outlets, sadly, are the bottom of the bottom of the barrel in most cases, and they tend to be staffed by the "journalists" who spent their college years getting drunk.