Because they don't have the time or incentive to research and report neutrally on that there was nothing very special at an inauguration.
They see a few pictures, they come up with a good story.
Now that said - your second image has some very flattering angles...
But those spots seem more populated.
The thing is - this is nothing anyone would go over and say this is proof that a story was incredibly wrong, and has to be refuted - and... As long as news outlets don't make very, very embarresing obvious mistakes, or someone is threatening to sue, they dont refute stories.
(Oh I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry guy who writes in to the paper to voice his concernes. Oh we, so sorry article commenter who hasn't payed us at all..)
Why would they. You and I wouldnt.
But then 'tha news' are supposed to be this beacon of light, that never err, that always tell you the truth, because people depend on it and ... in reality they just arent and never were. But thats not much of an issue - because thats just people becoming a little less naive.
What actually is an issue - is people riling them up again, to think - that they were cheated out of 'the good lord jebus christ' who brought us them independant and factual news in the past - and never erred. And never made themselves look better, if they had the option to do that or do - factual only reporting.
People becoming less naive: Good.
People wanting to stick with naivity to the extent of new fork and pichfork campaigns: Bad.
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Maybe its good to see it from this point for a while.
All that TV newsankers ever where, where ambitious folks, who someone put in a suit, and then had them read stories of people - a little more intelligent then they were. In the best case scenario.
Normally they were just out on a hunt for a good story - and that was something that could easily be explained in a catchy image, and enduced some emotions.
Then, when they didn't feel so ambitious (on the down days) they all were just reporting government taglines for days - because that was an easy job - because someone already wrote them, or talked in a fashion, where thy had just write it down - no thinking involved.
Then add to this, that there always were camps - but maybe, that FOX news still is on the far, far right of the news spectrum. (Democracy Now on the far, far left, if you need someone to hate on..
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But if you give people an ambitious guy in a suit and let him talk to them via them TV, every day of the week. They somehow start to love that person, and really - really believe them. And the sense of betrayal - if that is not the case - is real, and quite large.
Magic.