There is really no way to know. Every time I have attended an event that was subsequently described by the media I have been amazed at either the journalistic incompetence or the duplicity of the report. Without a lot more evidence I am not even willing to rule out the possibility that the whole story is just an elaborate ruse.
Was it "Stranger in a Strange Land" that introduced the "Fair Witness"?
That's where I am at the moment...
What is a “fair witness”?
Indeed, it was...
the infowarrior