Lazy Journalism

In the NT today is a story with the headline: Federal Workers' Children Born Abroad May Not Receive Automatic Citizenship.  Suppose you are interested in the story, as I was.  What one might like to learn from the story is which children will not receive automatic citizenship.  The story says some won't or may not.  Start with that, which ones?  Well, keep wondering because the story does not say.  It tells us that the new policy will "not affect the children of families with at least one parent who is an American citizen and has lived in the United States for at least five years."  That is not the policy, obviously.  It says something else and more.  But this not even a good start.  Does it exempt children of US citizens who have lived in the US at least 5 years in their lives?  So does it exempt the children of those who were born in the US and lived in the US at least 5 years?  Or is it 5 years within the last X years?  Does it apply to those who have been out of the US for 5 years?  Why, that is, not just say what the new policy is?  Odds are because the reporter has not read the policy and is too busy or something to find the thing and read it.  Instead, we get a report about press releases.  It cannot be that hard to read the new policy, or at the very least, for the really lazy, to link to the policy (the story is in the web version of the NYT, so it is not something difficult).  No, nothing.