Journalists like everyone else are driven by fame and fortune. If a journalist plagiarizes or makes up a good story and gets away with it they will get both. They will get paid more; they will be publicly recognized and praised by peers. Pay is a huge part of the reason why anyone does anything; you have to make money to get what you want. Also often times a journalist has a good story idea but does not have the facts or sources to back it up, so they just make them up. This is convenient for them because they can still do the story and receive the credit, without doing the work to find the sources. Fortunately the media is a very hard system to plagiarize in. Not only does the journalist's company usually check facts, but competing companies do as well. They want that newspaper, television channel, or radio station to look bad so that theirs looks better and ends up with more viewers and more money. Also civilians will check facts typically out of interest to do with that particular story. This all together is a good thing because we as civilians obviously want the news we are reading to be credible and reliable.
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