Actual journalists would have made a much more though investigation before reporting the story. They would also now be very angry at having been mislead and would be investigating just who "discovered" the "noose", who that person reported it to, how many people looked at the rope thinking it was a noose, did anyone say hey, it's just a door pulldown, if so, who gave the rebuttal that no, it's a noose, and how in the world this every became a story to begin with. That's what an actual news organization would do.