Kabukiman
Greatest Person Ever
I listened to it but the news was out well before his speech and it was all reported the same. They were saying he was killed last week in a bomb attack in Pakistan and they have been awaiting the results of a DNA test to confirm it. The whole firefight thing didn't start getting reported until after the speech. Not straight enough for me.
That's just news organizations trying to scoop a story before they have all the facts. Obama said this was all based on intelligence from last summer, so it's possible the newsies found out about one of the operations related to that bit of intelligence and just speculated the rest.
I'm sure they're not going to issue retractions, so you may be stuck wondering "what really happened" for a very long time.