No different than any other piece of reporting really. How often have you see commercial broadcast or cellular towers when there is a story about a ham radio operator on the news? More often than not those doing the reporting know nothing about what it is they are reporting on. Watch the news sometime and you will see that.
Except that reporters report, they don't give out fines. The FCC agent should know the rules he is trying to enforce, and be an expert in the equipment he is writing about. In my experience, most of the FCC agents wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a CB from an 8 track tape player.