The media's job is to make $. Stories, antecdotes, advertisement $, and predictions trump hard news. This is why nobody gave a rat's a$$ about the bills, and why everyone will be making up "feel good" stories about ralph, marv, jp, et. al when we're good later in the season. advertisement $ drove the michael vick herpes story off of the nfln and espn... "marv is old" sells more than "marv had a great draft" at this point, so that's what they're going with.
moral of the story: learn who to listen to, watch or read and learn to read between the lines, or else get bent out of shape over untrue crap.