NOT! TV is STRAIGHT where I go for ALL my laughably contrived fictional account of events, self-conscious, Hollywood wannabe’s spewing THEIR opinions, BS, biased and criminally inaccurate news!
That is ALL TV news has been for decades!!
The net made TV news one step away from glossy, melodramatic and farcical entertainment, decades ago!!
How easy do you suppose it would be to spoof a shooting in Balto?
Stage your people just around the corner from where news crews are set up; check closely to make sure that no real po-po are around; have your white actor in a po-po outfit chase then shoot (with blanks) your young black actor.
Then have your ambulance arrive; load the black “victim” and race off. Have your fake po-po cruiser pick up your white actor and disappear.
If your white actor doesn’t get ventilated by locals, count on the riot starting within 10 minutes. Count on the “news” reports of eye witnesses going on the air in half that.