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Upon realizing this, the entire profession of journalism disappeared.
Journalists are not qualified to read papers, generally. As the state of science reporting should tell you.
It's disappearing anyway :-P
But journalism is certainly not about "summaries of recent [academic] articles by someone who understands them".