Faulty News Reports: Who's to blame?

[FS]

I wholeheartedly agree. War journalism, especially when it's as close to the action as now, is still all about ratings. To get people's attention, you need to have the news first, so no time is wasted with pesky background checking. Everything is heard, written down and slapped all over the news.

I'm pretty sure there's some degree of government influence now and then, to prevent national morale from dropping, but certainly not much.

I think part of it is also that some channels or websites are afraid of telling the people what they don't want to hear (or rather, what said channels or websites THINK the people don't want to hear), and losing their audience that way.