So you think... I actually know how this works because I've done some of it... and it doesn't get done without a LOT of paperwork and red tape. Again... contrary to what reporters who don't know 10% of what they write about might say.
What's that saying again... GIGO (garbage in, garbage out)... the press has been caught in too many lies and fabrications for them to claim any high road. Or to be assumed they got it right... absent any real lproof.
They pick what they use to make it sound like what they want everyone to think... while ignoring and burying info that contradicts what they are pushing.
Sometimes they get it right... Like The National Enquirer did with John Edwards... anyone remember how bad the rest of the press went after them for that? And how wrong everyone else turned out to be?
Its not rare either... they rarely get it 100% right... heck half the time they are lucky to get it 50% right.
THe average reporter knows as much about things outside of the journalism business as the average person knows about Neurosurgury.