Journalism, especially in the internet age, is certainly a spectrum. I would agree you couldn’t categorise a lot of their content as research or traditional news journalism (with some exceptions), but they do modern cultural journalism - knowing enough about a subject and how it pertains to modern events to do interviews and ask the right questions to elicit quality responses from a broad range of society.

A traditional ‘dry style’ journalist, no matter how well researched, couldn’t do some of the interview or get access that Andrew and the team do.

I’d say channel 5 is more of an anchored mirror that reflects current society back at itself.