Authority of Truth

I just read a headline saying three were guilty in airline bomb plot. It's interesting to me the word "found" is not in the sentence as in, "three were found guilty..." Left out it becomes a statement of truth supposing the courts are the repository of truth.

And notice on the news when fact is portrayed as an allegation by assigning it to some group (usually not a source the mainstream media is comfortable with) as in, "the group alleges that he..."

So truth is what is handed down by government. Facts are simply one side of a story when coming from "un-expert" sources.