The British sailor hostage crisis and a gullible media

I think much of the confusion surrounding the whole British sailor fiasco is due to muddying by an attention deficit media. Specifically, the lack of attention to the fact that both sides, Iranians and British are arguing around two separate territorial incidents which the COW-centric media have haplessly merged as one.

Firstly, there is the catalyst incident commencing with the British inspection of the Iranian Dhow inside of the Shatt al-Arab, something even the British Navy acknowledges occurred even if they refuse point blank to disclose the precise location in the Shatt al_Arab.

Secondly, there is the apprehension of the British Sailors by the Iranian's some 20 kilometers outside of the Shatt al_Arab as they were disembarking an Indian vessel. We know this location because ironically, the British Navy have been only too willing to reveal the lat/long coordinates of this second incident.

Consequently, the media have seized the British Navy personnel's apprehension as the whole story by-passing the original territorial breech claims central to the Iranian justification for apprehending them in the first place. The British Navy then argues much like a burglar before the court that the case against him should be dismissed because he can prove that he wasn't arrested at the scene but after he had left it.

I can understand the burglar or the British Navy for that matter trying to put something stupid like this over the media but I confess I cannot understand why large sections of the media would be fooled by it.

Have the media become just as gullible as the public?