Humans are bad at separating novel risks from familiar likely ones. News is what's novel - not what's likely, so we have this horrible situation of putting our attention and efforts on the wrong thing.

Everything you said is 100% correct, but just look at all the extra news and scrutiny that's given to every Tesla crash. Or the people warning of the dangers of fidget spinners:

http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/news/a44415/m...