> Substitute teacher tells kids that there is no Santa, reporter writes
> deliberately melodramatic news story to horrify soft-hearted townspeople.

"I've got it! The perfect headline! 'Event Participated In By Some'!" -- some one-off journalist character on The Simpsons

All journalists are smarmy and sanctimonious little bastards who exist for no purpose other than boosting their ratings and selling their broadsheets full of advertisements. Let no one ever tell you otherwise. All "news" is lies. There's no such thing as objectivity. There can't be.