... and their farts don’t smell.
However, the point I was (poorly) trying to make was that Astronomers report what they see. It is the media and government who control what the public is made aware of.
In addition, the media no longer controls everything ya read like the old school newspapers and TV news, which were and are totally manipulated, censored and controlled...It's why they hate the Internet so bad.
BTW, this event did not need to be embellished, censored or exaggerated etc, as it was spectacular all by itself. Besides, it was totally outside government control as it was witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people who immediately put it out on the Internet...
And SPINS it during the awaring process, too!