[shihab]

An average person doesn't need to directly access the data. As long as journalists or researchers can, an avg person could rely on their analysis/opinion instead.

[dahfizz]

I would certainly not rely on journalists' to actually have a look at the data, let alone to have the technical skills to analyze and report on it. As it is, reporters don't bother mentioning / linking to the data, or mentioning the lack of publicly available data.

[jobu]

Data-journalism is actually a thing, and bigger organizations like the New York Times have done some pretty impressive work building tools and training programs for their reporters.

https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-t...

[asdff]

Here we are in the comment thread of an article of a journalist reporting this very analysis.

[ceejayoz]

It's OK to expect better from both journalists and companies.