The last few years, I've seen a lot of things that have lowered my opinion of reporters in this country. Obviously, I don't mean every reporter but taking them as a homogenous group, it's amazing how they will try to gin up a "hot story" out of darn near nothing…and get the basic facts wrong, to boot.
And I can't think of anything that proves this better than the fact that so many papers, magazines and websites think it fits any known definition of "news" that Captain America has been killed in his comic's current storyline.