I see people proclaim the quality of Propublica journalism and thus actually read through a number of their major exposes.

I wasn’t impressed. They do the same thing the major news outlets do - craft a narrative then selectively use findings to support it.

Their expose on tax records is a good example - they calculated billionaires tax rates based not on income (as everyone thinks of) but rather total wealth to arrive at shockingly small numbers (intentionally).

Maybe they do a better job of in depth articles but the overall quality isn’t that impressive.