Trump shot?

[Maxmars]

We have to acknowledge that our "sources" are mostly media.

That's where the 'confusion' begins. 

The paranoid conspiracy theorist in me knows this could all be "how things are done" with "media" now.  Lacking any true journalism, we are left only with the 'excitable' 'attention-seeking' media machinery and whatever they might gain for 'saying the right thing.'

Half the crap we are talking about might turn out be completely irrelevant, or purely (intentionally) spurious 'insertions' into the dialog.  There would be no 'fault' in following them because we don't know for sure who is saying what... and if there even ever was a 'who said it' to inquire about.

Is this is the reason law-enforcement and investigators avoid disclosure of facts?  Something isn't right about how all this is coming to light. 

And I find it kind of haunting that we might always be looking in an entirely wrong direction... or focusing on a piece of narrative 'bait.'  I'm not saying this is so, but this could be as bad as a political 'gang' war, finally taking form since the tenor of 'government service' was utterly usurped...