Dr. Julien Mercille:

There could be a situation where one could say if journalists were trained they would be more sceptical, but it could also be the other way around that if journalists were trained in finance they may internalise the views, just like stockbrokers who are trained in finance who internalise them. It depends on the type of economics they learn. If they learn progressive or alternative economics from Paul Krugman or David Harvey it would be very different from learning from more mainstream economists. It depends on what is learned as supposed to learning something.