Making fun of the wires

<--Security Forces in France wear a variety of uniforms. Some wear green. Some wear black. There is a car in the background with its headlights on. The car is read. Jesus writing is hard!

You remember how on the SATs and like standardized tests you would get questions with extraneous information, just to see if you were paying attention? Stuff like:

There are 5 red balls in a bag. There are 10 yellow balls. There are three green balls and it is partly cloudy with a 60% chance of snow. How many more yellow balls are there than red balls?

Well, reading the first news reports of stories that just hit the wire can be sort of like that. The BBC is reporting that a postal bomb has killed one and injured five at a law office in central Paris:

The former law firm of President Nicolas Sarkozy is located in the same building as the office where the device exploded, at 52 Boulevard Malesherbes.

Holy shit! Some crazy lefty bombed Sarozy's old Law Offices?! Two paragraphs later:

French officials said the parcel bomb exploded on the fourth floor - not the one where Mr Sarkozy's old firm is located.

Oh. Nevermind. But wait:

The building also houses The Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah - a Holocaust remembrance body.

Those anti-Semitic French bastards! Oh, wait. Apparently the bomb wasn't targeting them either:

It was addressed to the law office of Catherine Gouet-Jenselme, AFP reported. It was not clear why she may have been the target of an attack.

You get the feeling like some editor told some staff reporter to file a 500 word article, and he only could come up with 250? I mean, writing the wire stories has got to be a hard task, but is it too much to ask for only the relevant information?