Most of the people running TV news ops are brain dead morons who can not understand half of what they report. I had a player on one of my teams who's mother was a desk reporter/anchor and father was a News producer.
After one particularly false report about a gun used in a killing, I finally asked the guy to lunch. I had kept a really brief notebook on stories the station had aired that provided factual errors, not including errors in judgement, political understanding or position, just factual errors for one week. They both showed up as they thought I was going to rip on their son for something on the team, but when i started to tell them why I was talking to them, that they were making fools of themselves every night on TV by repeating just nonsense, he was very defensive but she was amazed.
I had a list I wish I could find it now, but it was stuff like pictures of a Ford Taurus when they called it Chevy Lumina, A building in uptown when the picture was from frogtown. A shotgun called an assault weapon. Person named was not the person they meant it to be. a marine sgt. when the Lt bars were clearly shown. I then brought up the story about the gun, how "hunting Rifle" was flip flopped several times with "sniper rifle". How the rifle used was actually over 70 years old, that it had never been equipped with a telescopic sight and that calling it a sniper rifle was akin to calling all fords race cars because some cars that race do have the oval on them. . She was amazed, she had no idea how poorly that reflected on her. She had done a story on fire sprinklers for safety and said they were too expensive for residential homes. She had no idea that many homeowners of upscale houses had been installing fire sprinklers for years because the cost involved for new dry line sprinklers often was erased in one or two years of reduced insurance premiums for Homeowners. She had merely been the mouth piece, saying what she believed to be true but which clearly was not true. It was poor reporting and research.
A few months later she was replaced because she had "become difficult" to work with according to her station. She must have sued and gotten some huge settlement as she is no longer working and her standard of living has gone up substantially.