I agree that the news media, particularly the less reputable tabloids, can often be criticised for sensationalising a story to shift papers, or printing misleading information to the same end. However, words like "reportedly", "apparently", "seemed to", etc, while they may be a "dead giveaway", they also don't automatically equate to outright lying. Or rather, if you are of the opinion that such reportage is less than honest or accurate, yours is the onus of presenting evidence to support the claim.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
