I would refer you to a comment you made in another thread.
What we don’t do is start with a desired outcome and then try to find facts to support our desired outcome, then if the evidence doesn’t support the desired outcome keep shifting the goal posts trying to claim it does.
Yours is good advice, it is the proper way to examine something, if the media is caught telling a lie in order to promote an outcome, that would be a bad thing, unless you are confident it was n honest mistake.