What ever happened to critical thinking skills, and editing, in journalism?

I was reading our local paper at breakfast. Apparently there was a massacre in our town in 1903.
The hero of the story is a guy named George Fredricks. George Fredricks moved his family to this town in 1900.
George was a former slave.
His family was the first black family to settle here.
He opened up a barber shop.
The article said, “It is not known if the barber shop was segregated.”

* Dutchess looks up from her reading and stares dead pan in to the camera. *

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Then there was this gem from the Wichita Eagle a couple of years ago.