Unsubstantiated statements

A reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune wrote an off-base sentence today that should have been caught (and deleted) by an editor. Granted, this story about flat-panel TVs being installed on city buses is not exactly hard news, but unsubstantiated (and unsubstantiatable) statements like this hurt the credibility of newspapers:

Compared to faster and more reliable mass transit systems, the buses that chug along city streets are becoming an unattractive alternative to driving.