I have formed the theory that the Cirrus is no different to any other sort of aeroplane, but we hear more about the Cirrus because the pilot pulls the chute and survives to tell the tail.
In your typical spam can, the pilot either gets out of it by the skin of his teeth, lives, and no one hears about it (other than in the pub) or dies in spectacular fashion. I can remember many PA28's being involved in VMC into IMC type accidents but when these happen everyone goes "my condolences", "we shouldn't speculate", "Wait for the AAIB report" and 2 years on we have forgotten about it.
Maybe if this chap didn't have a chute he would have got away with it and no more would have been said, or he would have died. As he had the third option of the chute, which makes the chance of survival higher, then he pulls it and it makes the news.