Sexing up the news

I found the coverage of Cameron's first official visit interesting on both last night's and this morning's news. The whole White House visit was pushed aside by the Lockerbie plus BP row. Apparently Cameron was going to be "grilled" by senators, who "demanded" the government investigate and "stated" that an independent review was required.

To which the logical response to all three would have been 'Sod off!' Senators have no rights over law-abiding non-US citizens, cannot demand the UK government do anything and they can by all means set up whatever enquiry they like but they can't demand information from us.

However ignore the reporters and focus on the language used by those involved and Cameron was "invited" to talk to Senators, was "asked" if the government could investigate things and "requested" that an independent review could be set up all in the interests of cordial inter-country relations.

Gosh the reporters wouldn't deliberately be using provocative language to spice up the story now would they?