No need to be truthful

We had some big news here in the county. There was a forest fire behind the high school on Monday that may in fact still be smoldering. My son called me after school while at Alg2 tutoring to tell me that I should probably come get him as the school was on fire. Sure enough there was a raging forest fire fueled by the abundance of dead beetle kill trees. On the Denver TV news (don't remember which one) it was reported that no kids were in the school at the time of the fire (the fire started a little before 3pm). Granted we are a small community --but we do have after school activities like athletics etc. Then our newspaper (Summit Daily) reported that some 892 kids were evacuated and bussed home. My son pointed out that by "evacuated" they meant that the last bell rang for the day and the kids took their normal bus home. In truth there were about 60 kids evacuated when I picked my son and niece up from the school. I guess if you live at a high enough altitude, people figure that it doesn't really matter if you get the story right or not. By the way the kids had a "fire" day on Tuesday to let the building air out.