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WU_HAN_FRU 24 points ago +24 / -0

It's 21st-century "journalism."

The most likely thing is that some authority figure told them that's what happened. If you feed them details you want out there, they report it without question because it's less work for them. Win-Win. This is a quick and dirty explanation of how it works.