"...a spot of lousy reporting...." Andrew M, you have made my day!
Lousy reporting is SOP now-days....after seeing so many blatant c@ckups (& over dramatisation) in Aviation reports I find it impossible to believe anything I read esp on subjects I know v little about.
The global scaremongering about SARs is another example of the sort of bias and drama that is best left for a soap opera.
The modern press have about as much respect as used car salesman.
Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see.