I don't like it when the news people allow themselves to be used as pawns for the Government. They are always stating things as "fact" when you know that they are just repeating what a Government official told them. For example, how can they verify what happens in a war zone where they don't have any reporters, and how do they know how many troops are in a particular area? Another example is when they reported several years ago that the President had to "cut his vacation in Hawaii short" to return to Washington. They all reported that as an absolute fact, when they had no way to know when the president had actually intended to return to Washington. If they don't know that something is a fact, they should not state it as a fact.
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