It makes it more sensational thus they get many more hits which represents $$$$$. JMOI hear ya, I said myself a while back as re: People that I’m not into the “unnamed source” thing either...is there another source?
(I’ve said before Jay Leno used to joke about these “sources”)
Denver7 is a pretty big news channel though, I don’t see why they’d lie about it like that, compared to a tabloid magazine.