While the stories are problematic for the news organisations, they are not always the journo's doing. Sub-editors 'play' with the story and can (sometimes) stuff up mightily what may have been quite reasonable to start with e.g. headlines and photos are usually added by the sub-editors.
A story about my organisation some years ago was a dogs breakfast that we couldn't comprehend. When I spoke to the journalist he was not amused - about 1/3 of his words were omitted and various paragraphs had been placed in seemingly random order by the sub-editor.