Under the category of "suspicions confirmed," you might like to read
this piece from the Aero-News email newsletter this morning:

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Related story- One time in my life a long time ago I was present during an
aircraft incident that generated a lot of news coverage. I was in a
position to know who talked to who and what the facts were. Nobody involved
wanted to talk to the press and only a few brief factual statements were
made. I saw it all. That night on the news, I was amazed to find out how
much the news people just simply fabricated additional 'facts' to make it
sound more interesting. They literally just wrote a fictional story that
was remotely based on actual events that day. Nobody at the tv station
would talk to me about it afterwards.