That seems kinda inefficient though. Why do the newspapers exist and we don't just get our news from Reuters directly? I mean, other than the obvious competency issue, but as shown that applied to the newspapers too.

Sure, I'll accept that, but it indicates a complete lack of editorial control and that journalists are being assigned articles they know absolutely nothing about.

Landing on the pole is extremely challenging and, from what I know of their space program, outside of India's current capabilities. That fact should have been caught far before publication, but of the US news sources I could find only AP and NPR caught it.