How then can any reporter write on any topic except one they know intimately from a first person account?

How can a rag put a reporter on a lifestyle beat one day, and have them report on science the next?

How can a gender studies major who doesn’t know jackshit about tech go to write for the DailyDot on institutional discrimination against women in tech? Or how can the TheMarySue/Jezebel/Salon/Guardian go on to describe how Zoe Quinn’s game Depression Quest was a masterpiece and makes her as much an expert and insider to gaming as Brad Wardell?

Your solution to Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy and Gell-Mann Amnesia would gut the media and require only intimate insiders with first person knowledge report on any topic.

And that doesn’t allow for the perspective of outsiders to observe, analyze, report critically on what they see. In fact, you are apparently insulted if they try.

Small market media station trying to report on a local trans issue? They best not report at all unless they hire a local trans reporter.