My long-running objection to this kind of quicky journalism exactly. No detailed attribution, no drill-down availability, no footnotes. I developed facster.com to overcome these and other limitations, the goal being to provide research-quality stats from the government and other sources, make the information searchable, browseable, and joinable. I haven't had the time to do much work on it since 2005, so the most recent abstract I loaded is from 2003. Also in some migration the search index got damaged. A lot of search terms are missing, but I've boosted repairing the search index on my to do list.

In addition the data isn't normalized. The rate of something could be decreasing year-over-year but due to population increase the quantity continues to increase. Ignoring the normalized data helps journalists create sensationalistic headlines.

As "journalism" I find it lacking, but it might be fun to write a web widget that would put one stat delta per day.