Diogenes, I’m finding your assertion here a bit weird. The examples given do nothing whatseover to prove your point: “ever” and “at all” are absolutes.
I’ll throw the BBC’s Andrew Gilligan into the mix too - the words “sexed up” regarding the British government’s September Dossier re. Iraq’s WMD, that he put in Dr David Kelly’s mouth, which led to the poor man’s suicide*.
Sure, it’s usually a firing offence, but it absolutely does happen from time to time.
Five who did something so black and white they got condemned. Most who deliberately distort by omission never get called on it.
While this is true, I in no way agree that the problem is limited in the way you imply. I’ve seen dozens of instances of reporters who garble legal detail and while it can be annoying, I understand that problem. But in the anecdote I told, no one who was actually listening could have failed to understand that the defence, the prosecution and the judge agreed that the incident in question was a freak accident and did not result from what I have euphemistically called being an asshole. The reporter was either terminally thick or deliberately writing a misleading story to fit her pre-chosen angle.