Wrong thread Jon, the conspiracy, um, uh, oh........stuff, is across the hall.

It would be easy to get cynical about this media stuff. I saw this obvious joke as good commentary (humor always seems to work best when it incorporates real life situations) on how we should be willing to dig deeper whenever we see/hear a news account. It's also important for what we get from the internet. As in this story, the reporter could defend him/herself as being "accurate" by saying the guy did ride a bike, the lion was from Africa, and the kid was supposed to be lunch. But context has meaning.

Don, what you say has great merit, any time we put our comments in the hands of editors we're at risk. I once got a call from one of the local TV "consumer advocate" reporters. He asked his question wanting my feedback. I told him that his premise was wrong, that the condition/product he was doing his report on was not as he wanted to present it. I offered several non-biased sources to refute his position, and I naively thought that would cause him to present the facts (I was much younger then ). When I tuned in to see his report his agenda was clear. Facts be damned, he was on a crusade! That episode along with many others has caused me over the years to seek out multiple sources of info on any matters that are of import.