The Media today sucks!

Ok here is another thing that bothered me about media today.
Some woman calls 911 with a broken accent and exclaims that her son flew away in a flying saucer, the 911 operator requests confirmation of what she was just told but the caller corrects her statement and says her little son climbed into a helium filled weather balloon.
Ok, so we have a claim that a 6 year old boy climbed into a basket beneath a large balloon and is flying out of control through the skies of Colorado.
Granted, the authorities have to take action because it is their job. But the media jumps on the story as if it were an amber alert! There was footage that the parents took of the balloon slipping loose from its tether and flying off WITHOUT A BASKET BENEATH IT!
The fathers acting in the footage really needs some work, he kicks a chair instead of lunging for the strings that were still on the ground as the balloon lifted off.
The balloon itself was a flimsy weather balloon that looked like a cross between a festive mylar balloon and a flying saucer. It appeared to be made to measure temperature at elevated heights but surely could not lift the weight of a human being without showing a pull in its material where a body would be. Meaning: if a boys body was in the balloon in the center, the metallic thin material would sag in the center with a funnel effect.
But instead of doing the math and checking the facts, the media sends its prayers out to poor "Falcon" and the family and then continue to cover the story minute by minute.
When the balloon tore and was half inflated it slowly lowered to earth.
I am no reporter or researcher but after watching an episode of "Mythbusters" where they had to use 16 helium balloons to lift an adult male off of the crust of the earth in a lawn chair, it was clear to me that one balloon just wasn't enough to launch this kid upward.
The media really needs to stop suckling on the popular teat and actually do some research.
All of these bullshit new channels that spend millions of dollars on new technology that can show how many times wolf blitzer sneezes need to go back to basics. We don't need a hologram of a chart or a wall of interactive videos to learn about what is going on in the world.
Sit behind a friggin' desk and read the copy!
Take this metaphor and do what you will with it:
Learn some facts about a pond before you jump in with both feet or else you might get eaten by a crocodile.