A Sentence that sounds odd to me. Journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics.This is how we stay objective. I can't really understand it. Thanks for your help!! The writer is saying that journalists must know about a wide range of topics. However, their knowledge is very limited (that is called superficial knowledge) so they only know enough about the topic to report it as it is given to them. So that means they dont have an opinion about what they write. It can be correct or it can be wrong. They just report it. Say there was a person saying vaccinating children for measles is dangerous and should be stopped. An objective journalist would just report what the person was saying. A subjective reporter knowing a bit about the history of measles would report that the view of the person if implemented could endanger the community by allowing a dangerous disease to escape control. That would be a subjective report.