Amazing you discredit a story from a journalist because some parts are technically not correct.
Just to add my five pence worth: Whenever I read an article or watch a news clip about a topic that I know something about or was directly involved in, the content is 95%+ garbage. Even from 'respected' sources like CNN, BBC, Der Spiegel, the NYT or Washington Post.
I am allowing myself to extrapolate that the content has the same 5% accuracy value when it is about events or topics I have no clue about.