However, I have had experience of the press picking up on speculation and rendering it fact.
That will always happen, that is just the press, never let the truth stand in the way of a good story.
Years ago I had to fly to another country to identify the bodies of two pilots who had flown into a mountain. The press interviewed me and asked me if I had flown over the route that the deceased pilots took, I replied ,"yes".
The story ran like this
Chief Instructor flys route to see where pilots went wrong.