I trust Mainstream News Media (MSM) as much as Watchtower media.
I worked with 2 Gilead students, they'd show up around 2 hours before quitting time at the factory, after their Gilead classes. Toward the end of their stay, they found the latest Mag. article on their class, and both were 'quoted' in it.
1st guy would say, 'I didn't say that', then laughter. Followed by the 2nd student saying, "I didn't say that either,' with more laughter. And that's how it was, for those 2 hours, over and over again.
And that's all they could do was laugh. Had they raised a stink over being lied about, their 'spiritual lives' would have ended right then and there!
The other Bethelites on the floor heard them, but didn't say anything, why? We were all zombies.