An interesting example of how journalists play telephone, but let's not distract ourselves by questioning the volume of data they intercept from the problematic

An interesting example of how journalists play telephone, but let's not distract ourselves by questioning the volume of data they intercept from the problematic fact that they do this at all. What would worry me is a chain of citations where the pertinent facts changed (e.g. "celebrity X has the potential for Y" -> "X did Y"). This happens too, as you sometimes find in issues of Private Eye.