In a footnote, the authors call their report "a work of journalism about a failure of journalism".
It a complete failure of journalism to present them as equally valid opposing views, a glaring error known as false balance.
It was the failure of journalism to make sense of the 1960s that opened the way for new voices like Thompson's, and new vehicles, like Jann Wenner's Rolling Stone magazine, in which Thompson published some of his most important articles.
"I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist," Smith said today while on-stage at TechCrunch's Disrupt New York conference.
And BBC Scotland's Ken MacQuarrie found another Newsnight report - which led to Tory peer Lord McAlpine being wrongly accused of child abuse - had been the result of a "serious failure" of journalism.
The failure of journalism in the 2002-03 run-up thethe Iraq War may have been a bottom.
In fact, if anything, this is about the failure of Journalism across the board to serve any constituency with true and righteous honor.
"During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: 'Look out!
It was a failure of basic journalism practice.
What everyone has lost sight of is the spectacular failure of mainstream journalism to keep the whole affair in perspective.
