media - Between fact and fiction

Telling fiction is a long standing tradition among foreign journalists in China, as Sterling Seagrave illustrates in his bestseller The Dragon Lady. I thought that because of the internet telling nonsense about China would be much harder to get away with. But telling fiction has now become the new standard in the media, I believe.
Perhaps I'm just an old conservative journalist who still enjoys an occasional fact, but that is over. A Dutch TV station wants to do a story on the shortage of women, and bring a Dutch woman over to look for a man. The problem is already a fiction (see my previous entry) and might only occur at some places in the country-side. They want to shoot in a large city, even though they know it is no problem here.
Why do they need a journalists for, to organize a fictional documentary? They might as well go to a Chinese restaurant in Amsterdam. What a nonsense.