I wasn't being too serious.
I understand there are misinformation cases, it's just I am often annoyed in how the newspapers don't go into details, so it's not clear at all what is going on. However, I agree that being too quick in calling names may create embarrassing situations: in the 90s there was an accountant in Milan who got arrested just because he had the same name and surname of a mafia boss.

But why did you say "or worse": the 2 quotes are identical, one statement can't be worse than the other.