No, not at all. Cyn, when you are on the SCENE of a car wreck, and you hear a reporter on the radio, getting a relay from someone on a cell phone, that drove by the wreck at 50 miles and hour, and the story on the radio in no way resembles what you are seeing and hearing, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK?
If the witness sounded like a failure, you would see posters on here admitting so, no matter what their 'side'.
Some reporter that is reading off a script and has not been watching the trial or listening, and is getting paid to say what the PRODUCER wants said, is more valid to you than are hundreds of people listening intently to every second of the trial.