Nowadays the degree of reliance on newspaper reports (or news apps and social media messages in our era – webmaster for Custodians of the Haq) is greater than the reliance which people accord to even Shar’i proofs in spite of sensationalism and distortion employed in abundance by the papers. There appears to be no limit to erroneous reports published by newspapers.
(Moulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi Rahmatullahi alaih)