Media need to make money, hence to distortion of the truth enough to get away with it, to get the comunity up in arms. Makes them look good to the un-educated.
It may only need make a complaint to the media to explain they need to tell the real truth or make a complaint to media authority.
Sometime all it takes is a standard proforma letter to fill in the blanks and send it off to the TV Stations, if there responce it unsatisfactory then a complaint is made to the media athority.
TV Stations are charged by the media authority even if the complaint is not valid.
An example is my clients that have continual problems with the media all the time have a carefully scripted website that sends complaints to the media mostly by email by sending a standard form just filling the blanks. It is not designed for general complaints but it is what needed for most people who winge about media but do nothing about. The site if anyone is interested is
www.mediaaccess.org.au
While people sit on their backside making complaints that go nowhere the media stretch the truth further and further till it breaks and they fall back a little finding there limitation. They will continually distort the truth while no one complains.
Freedom of the press they call it.