The journalist definitely cannot access the information in the detail we'd want them to, that's true. My issue is more with their phrasing, because never would

The journalist definitely cannot access the information in the detail we'd want them to, that's true. My issue is more with their phrasing, because never would an article provide basic nuance like "This problem might not be common, and we don't know about how common it is in other products, these are just some randomly-selected cases we have found that happened in the past few years". I think even with proper disclosures, we wouldn't necessarily be getting useful articles, but perhaps it'd at least help by enabling them to be more easily written.