I've always known that science journalists don't know anything about science. I'm only now realizing that they don't know anything about journalism either.

They only know how to tell one story. That's the story of the underdog scientist who is (or more commonly, "might be about to") upsetting the stuffy old establishment. Everything that goes on in the scientific community has to be shoehorned into the storyline of "Dodgeball" or "The Mighty Ducks", or else they have no idea how to talk about it.

I was originally going to post this comment on the thread about the "surfer dude with theory of everything" article, but it fits here just as well.