@kennethamy,
kennethamy;103411 wrote:So, does the press say someone was something just to put the idea in the masses that it wasn't? My goodness, however do you know all this?

i tend not to believe anything i read in the media, but first i consider the source. there are some that are less biased, and i also read some that are biased in opposite directions, feeling that the truth is somewhere in between. bbc (where the article you posted came from) is one of the better ones. if you make a list of those other reports you saw and examine which newspapers they came from, there would be more to go on.
think about when a politician makes a speech and then the commentator comes on and says "now here's what he said", and goes on to explain what you heard, but if y ou listen to both you will see that they are never the same. it is so obvious, but most people only listen to the commentator, thinking that the speech in its entirety is too long and boring, and they just want a recap.
media exists to bend the mind of the public, and it is paid to do so by its advertisers and various sponsors, and owners, and people who have their own agendas. i dont pretend to know who all is at the back of this, but i do know that they are not simply objectively reporting news. this is not a conspiracy theory, this is just a fact of business, and a fact of life, and a feature of humanity (that last part referring to people having their own agenda to try and propagate).