I don't think that matters. It is well established that just asking people to recount an event is extremely unreliable. However, the difference between "ask ten

I don't think that matters. It is well established that just asking people to recount an event is extremely unreliable. However, the difference between "ask ten people" and "have a journalist write an article for a major newspaper" makes this question a lot less fascinating. Things maybe relative or fuzzy, but journalism is supposed to be one of these areas where the two are explicitly ruled out.