>if you'd bothered with any follow-through on these topics you'd have encountered a very different picture
Why don't you expound on that very different picture instead of such a hand wavy kneejerk dismissal without any reasoning or references?
But seeing as you had a cherry picked list of the harshest (and incomplete) reportings at the ready, augmented with you're own slanted commentary my guess is that a "full picture" isn't what you're aiming for here.