They expend more energy fighting the system than gathering. Look at your hand again. The isolation of reporters, photographers and editors allows the quickest and most plausible report to carry the day. All the world's great literature shows us the quickest and most plausible is not always the last word. It's time for journalists to join this literature.
Life is more complex than the harried journalist's first impression.
A newsroom team working on the life and times of the community will discover real heros in neighborhoods, government buildings, hospitals and schools. We can change, or history will record the last half of the 20th Century as a time when journalists systematically trashed or ignored all potential heros and substituted celebrity pseudo-heros just because celebrities offer a predictible, continual flow.