"The press, on the other hand have no right to make up gossip in the absence of evidence. Their job is to report the truth, not to make up their own false reality based on an agenda."
Well said.
That is the biggest problem with the media today across everything, they don't report the news, they try to create it. And if they don't, they run a "story" loosely based on some facts so that the people they originally wanted to provide information have to respond.
And in some ways, the media itself wants to be the story.