Gotta find the news somehow, and only idiots trust the first thing they read. Unless you can count on them telling the truth, but this is pre-Rising.
Magic, right. There's vampires, I guess it can't be too far from the truth. Physics or something. I don't know. Right out of a fairytale, but George Romero made movies and that came to life, I guess so can everything else.
It comes down to this: people are .. people. And sometimes people are stupid. I would know, I'm an Irwin. Just make a mental note of people you can't trust to be rational and go from there.