They do it all the fucking time. If you've studied any degree (university or technical college doesn't matter) related to a STEM field you HAVE seen this before. For the uninitiated, first the more entertaining version:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=07NMglQX6gE
And an extra bit of explanation that is less fun to parse through:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LdnZ1l5TxJk
I assure you. If you knew how the media reports any and all supposedly scientific facts, you'd see. Even on shit they have no reason to lie. Even on the most ludicrously benign bullshit. The media LIES. It does it constanty and relentlessly on absolutely everything and if you know how to check about the sources and care about the story, you will spot it. It's as tiring as it is horrifying.
For those wondering why the media would lie on even benign inocuous things and starting to get the 1984 tinfoil. Don't. It's often unintentional. Here's the thing, and this is something you'll have to learn about if you care about the scientific method:
Telling the truth isn't as easy as just stating things you consider to be true. To ensure honesty a scientist needs to be willing to change his mind if faced with evidence against his position, and he needs to check his evidence before publishing.
The media doesn't do this. They never double check their bullshit, they never try to stay honest and they sure as shit never change their position based on evidence, only narrative.
Because of this, a journalist quite simply can be considered to always be lying, even when they tell the truth. Because the journalist is never aware if what he's saying is true or not, he has no fucking clue because he never bothered to check to begin with. That's why even when they genuinely don't want to convey false information they still manage to fuck it up. Because they edit the source to make it more comfortable to read, simpler or more authoritative, and they don't realice the way they're editing it fucks up the actual meaning of what is being said. They don't want to lie, but they never actually tried to avoid doing so, so they do it anyway, because they're idiots.
And yes, it does drive the actual scientists insane. When I said if you've studied STEM you are aware of this, it's because they're literally teaching, on all STEM degrees, at least 1 month of "how to deal with journalists", (obviously not literally named that, but the name isn't standard and for all intents and purposes it is that), a course where they teach you what the media does, how they do it, and how to essentially try to adapt your information in ways where you trick the interviewer into telling the truth. For example, in journalism they teach the students to act as if they were morons when they understand what you're saying but think they can't edit it in ways that makes it "good for the audience", because subconsciously that'll make the interviewed person repeat the information in simpler and usually oversimplified ways, which for them it's good because they care more about narrative than they care about information. So now they're teaching us that journalists do this and to have prepared a syntaxis that doesn't oversimplify beforehand and start with one we know is more obtuse, so they'll be happy with the second which they wouldn't actually be without the first, more obtuse version. It's like the arms race of weaponized autism, academia and the media are literally currently engaged some kinda retarded narrative cold war because journalists are by nature completely dishonest. It's infuriating and hilarious in equal measure.