CBS reported last night, apparently definitively, that Dz. had no gun in the boat.

Remember how George Zimmerman supposedly used a "racial epithet" while following Trayvon Martin? Millions "heard" it on the tape. It turned out that the sounds were probably not even words and could have been made by inadvertently scraping the cell phone against his face.

In both cases the embellishments made a more exciting story that was closer to movie-based expectations: Killer is a vicious racist!! Bomber yells, "Come and get me, coppers!!"

The way people want the news to be.