Hee hee. Just a tad too melodramatic for you? Well, if they just reported what happened and let you reach your own conclusions, then they wouldn't be "real" journalists, now would they?

Which reminds me of an old incident from my one-and-only journalism class. There were two riders in the class (me and a teammate), so the prof randomly asked us if we knew about this scaley- horney growth on horses legs that just grow and grow and then fall off... Um, yeah, it's a chestnut. Well, apparently it is also bizarre and repulsive (and she was a Pulitzer-prize winner in environmental journalism, if memory serves).