Having worked in news long ago I’m not at all surprised that things can get warped in the retelling. In fact it is surprising to me that the news about rather complex things is as good as it is.
News is largely gathered by a group of people who are not specialists in the subject the news concerns. That raw material is passed on to another group, again not really knowlegeable about the subject matter, who assemble it and put it into shape to be printed, broadcast or whatever. In the case of radio and TV it is then read on air by still a third group whose asset is that they have a nice voice or can be made up to look good, or both.
And still they manage to get some things right. Mostly though, except for straight reporting of an event like an automobile accident, it is just a little (or sometimes a lot) off.