5 Insane Ways The News Edited The Truth Out Of Huge Stories

Only, it wasn't quite as live as they claimed it to be.

While the in-studio anchor explicitly stated that the reporter was directly over the search site, their helicopter was, in fact, hovering over the channel's Brisbane studios on the first day, and simply sitting on the channel's helipad with its blades whirring the next. That's not even a good lie -- you know, one in which you get credit for trying. That's not turning in a report card with forged grades to your parents; it's taping a picture of your smarter brother to your face and pretending you're actually him.

This just confirms our suspicion that Australia is a fake country.

Still, at least they actually put someone in the helicopter, instead of flat out green screening their reporters "on location," CNN style.

Making an upstanding professional wrestler look no better than a common politician.

CNN edited out everything Cena said about steroids -- as well as their shitty questioning -- but kept the final part of his last answer. The interview that aired basically went like this:

CNN: "Have you ever used steroids?"

Cena: "[Paranoid overly defensive crazy person rant]."

CNN: "[Puffs on a pipe, raises one eyebrow.]"

But the WWE had also recorded the entire interview, and promptly came out with the real, unedited footage, which made CNN look like a massive turd. CNN sent a condescending sorry-not-sorry statement to the WWE, and then stood by their decision to use the edited "answer" in the interview.

Note to news media: When you sit down to talk a professional wrestler, and you're the one who comes off like a belligerent showboating heel, you're doing journalism wrong.

While co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade discussed Steinberg's piece, Fox gleefully put up pictures of Steinberg and Times television editor Steven Reddicliffe, both edited into wacky cartoon caricatures:

You may recognize these tactics from playground grudges and old racist propaganda from WWII, but don't worry, Fox immediately made up for it by running another, much more flattering picture of Reddicliffe ...

... walking a particularly well-groomed poodle with Steinberg's face.

Editorial Note: Entry edited to remove and replace unreliable source. While our editors are fully aware of the irony here, irony experts are still being bussed in to ensure it really gets rubbed in properly.

It wasn't an isolated incident: In 1981, in yet another 60 Minutes segment, CBS proved that certain kinds of wheels used on heavy trucks were liable to randomly explode like artillery shells, creating a significant hazard for both mechanics and pedestrians. What they forgot to mention was that they had carefully shaved off the locking mechanism that kept the rims in place prior to the test. When the doctored wheels still refused to misbehave, they kept repeating the test, shaving off more and more of the metal each time. It wasn't until 70 percent of the mechanism was gone that they finally got their explosion -- and their story -- out of the ordeal. But don't worry: They got what they deserved.

An... Emmy?

Shit.

Not that CBS is the only player in the vehicle sabotage game: In 1992, NBC reported on the unfortunate tendency for General Motors pick-up trucks to catch fire after crashing. Which should have come as no surprise, seeing as NBC had used freakin' incendiary devices to do so.

They, at least, issued an apology, stating that, after a long period of deliberation, they'd decided such "unscientific demonstrations" shouldn't be aired in context of actual proof. Remember: That was their new policy. Up until 1992, under the old policy, basically everything may as well have been special effects.

Dibyajyoti Lahiri is the guy who would mimic the teacher in school and have his friends in splits. Unfortunately, mainstream news media is yet to wake up to his talents. Get in touch with him on Twitter.

For more reasons to never trust anything ever again, check out The 5 Ballsiest Lies The Mainstream Media Passed Off As Fact and The 19 Most Outrageous Lies Circulating On The Internet.

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