As in all such disastrous events, estimates of the casualties varied wildly. They started at forty-seven dead, eighty-nine seriously injured, went up to sixty-three dead, a hundred and thirty injured, and rose as high as one hundred and seventeen dead before the figures started to be revised downward once more. The final figures revealed that once all the people who could be accounted for had been accounted for, in fact no one had been killed at all.
Douglas Adams in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
I love how Douglas Adams presents such items as parody, but it actually speaks fairly true to the nature of mainstream media. It doesn’t matter if it’s accurate, it matters if it can be sensationalized.