Journalists and podcasts

Is it me, or is the proliferation of podcasts by journalists and so-called news outlets, just the dumbing down of the skill of being a journalist.

It seems to me good-journalists can distill a 45 minute pod-cast into a well written, coherent and cogent article.

The problem is to me, that it probably takes them more than 45 minutes to write a piece, so probably just easier to make a pod cast.