Partly. They rewrite each other. So if AP (the usual suspect) distorts facts, so do most other newsrooms because they base their reporting on what AP (and other wire services) provide them.
Shep Smith has been particularly egregious IMO. He's so full of himself he now regularly editorializes, substituting his own opinions for verified facts.
There's also what I call the "meme factor" or "bandwagon effect." Once someone actually prints or broadcasts a wildly incorrect story it's taken by others to be "factual," especially if they agree with it, even if they suspect it's not. That happens all the time right here on Free Republic.
Well, so much for Obama being a symbol of unifying this country.
Instead of enforcing the Federal law on the books, which he has sworn to do so, he stalks ethnic enmity which is now pitting one state against the other never before seen since the civil war.
What we are seeing here is but a foretaste of what is to come if we split this country up into ethnic enclaves.
Welcome to the balkanization of these dis-united states.
... sort of like when seemingly all the idiot newscasters in the country convinced themselves (and others) that the small, saucer-shaped, foil helium balloon they were tracking could contain enough gas to lift a 75 lb child off the ground?