Imagine this...

[Belacqua]

The decision would lie more with Mr. Cooper's executive producer than with him.  

If a person doesn't buy into the propaganda story he'll never work in a major news outlet, as producer or reader. 

My point in the OP is that no one reported it.

No one reported it in written sources that we know of. But strange stuff happens all the time in this world, even today, and we hear about very little of it.

Anyway, it's a category error to suppose that anything in the Bible was intended as straightforward reportage. It's allegory, intentional myth, based on traditional literary structures. If you're arguing that we shouldn't read it as disinterested objective journalism -- yeah, you're right. People who think of it that way are naive.

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The media are owned by the very rich. They exist solely to sell a narrative, and they're extremely good at what they do. Stories which work against the narrative are generally ignored or lied about.

Anderson Cooper does not own the media.

But nice try.

He is a multimillionaire whose best interests are served by repeating the propaganda line. He probably even believes a lot of it.