Here's a fine example of journalism about Intermittent Fasting [latimes.com].
The TL;DR: "It sounds uncomfortable" and a lot of anecdotal evidence to say it's insane. Meanwhile, we've been intermittently fasting as a species since time immemorial, yet we're still here. She doesn't even bother to interview someone actually intermittently fasting to see what the real scoop is, instead just dismisses it as a fad.
And the newspapers wonder why they are increasingly irrelevant. It's their own doing.