I haven't quoted it lately but I used to often quote the late newsman Jack Germond who once said — approximately — "The trouble with news reporting is that we aren't paid to say 'I don't know.' So we have to say things when we don't know."
I was reminded of that by a brief scan just now of the news channels and sites. Everyone is eager to tell us how the vote is going and they're not letting not knowing anything stop them. So we're getting a lot of meaningless "facts" which will eventually be replaced by real information. I think I'll wait until they are to start paying attention.