media and lies

I remember when I was a sophmore in high school, there was this kid that was killed due to gang violence. Now this kid was not like the media said he was, the media said he was a sweet kid who never messed with nobody, and that the gangs killed him. The truth was that he was not a sweet kid, he was a gang member. He would fight in school and cuz at the teachers. my point is that the media sometimes bends the truth a little to make the stories sound more compasonate. because if they said a gang member was just killed, people would be like good those gangs need to stop. they need story that would relate to human emotions, like the firefighters getting the kitty out of the tree thing. what do you guys think???