Journalism has always been this way under capitalism. Journalists lied about Iraq. They lied about the Black Panther Party. They lied about Vietnam. The term "Yellow Journalism" came about in the 1890s to describe the inflammatory newspapers of the era.
The Edward R. Murrows and Walter Cronkites are the exception, not the rule, under capitalist news reporting because the entire industry relies on selling what sells, instead of broadcasting what informs.
They should have made them silver bordered and put in special Un-sets. Like now you have Un-cards people actually want, while keeping them seperate from the main IP, with the option of making them tournament-legal by reprinting them in-universe.