I have had personal knowledge of a few things that were reported in the news. From this I have come to be leave that the news usually gets the date at the top of the page right. They also usually....... Well they get the date right.
Not always. A community newspaper I subscribe to has even gotten that wrong. (One time, due to an editor/publisher/writer/photographer/janitor's error, an entire page of the previous week's paper got reprinted.)
Cut-and-paste can be your friend, but it's your evil friend.