"He's gone and we're not gonna say why, but if you point that out we're not going to call you the next time we have some news and we'll never issue a press pass to anyone from your organization ever again." - The Navy (probably)
Still no excuse for just slapping your masthead on their press release and calling it journalism, but there may be a bit of nuance here
If the news started telling us why, we would be able to form our own opinions on the information it provides. The 'why' has been a thing of the past for decades.