Personally, I don't treat a single one of our local radio hosts as journalists. They're more personalities that share opinions based on the work the TV, newspaper and online reporters do. (For the record, I'm not saying it's a good or bad thing. They're filling a certain niche in the media world.)
But, that's also why I took a bit of an issue with Schaefer and Benning talking about all this stuff on Sharp & Benning the other day, and with any other local reporter sharing this stuff without solid basis. We don't have any confirmation of facts or concrete information. It's almost exclusively speculation, outlined very well in knapplc's hypotheticals above. It's possible a lot of it has been perpetuated and twisted, perhaps even unintentionally.