Perfect example of getting the story perfectly wrong

An example of how news and information is mangled, misinterpreted and turned into untruth.

Someone talking about the current 'top-up' scandal in Ireland was criticising the 'head man' in St Vincent de Paul for giving himself a 'top-up' of €200,000. The man went on to say he'd give none of them a penny.

But of course he got the story completely wrong from A to Z. The story had nothing to do with the St Vincent de Pau Society. The 'top-up' concerned St Vincent's Hospital.

It was his own certainty, his own sureness that makes it all so scary.

How much do we all get wrong? How do large organisations, PR companies, governments go about in trying to misconstrue the truth?

Is that the job of the spin doctor?