This kind of writing encourages the reader to suspend disbelief, as one does when reading a short story, to accept emotionally charged statements as true. These 'atrocities' are discussed in great, though entirely speculative, detail. Trial by media. It is enough to make you gaga, especially when you read such 'news' for hours at a time. The mental equivalent of smog.
Arguments are circular.
A supposed mass grave is discovered. There is no systematic follow-up, no testing of these predictions against fact. Rather, such speculations, once uttered, become part of the record, to be cited in later articles as if proven. The Spanish experts were told they would find 2000 bodies. They found 187.