Why I don't like journalism

As an ex amateur-journalist, I am reminded everyday by pieces like this why I didn't want to become a real journalist. The emphasis below is mine:

The Gulf cities are not perfect; they are cultural infants, and their towers have been built by migrants whose living conditions can be a disgrace. But they are successful, and they are Arab. They demonstrate that there is no reason why those two adjectives should not live in the same breath — or why Beirut's fires, which were the symbol of a region's past, should illuminate its future.

Beirut's fires, a symbol of the region's past, illuminating the future?! What the hell is that supposed to mean? That's about as ludicrous and nonsensical as Condy's statement about Lebanon's brutal whipping by Israel in the 2006 war as being the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." That's like the kind of ending sentence I'd slap onto a crap essay I was writing in a high school English class, right as the teacher was hurriedly coming around to collect papers...