I'm at the point, unfortunately, that I would believe the statement of a retail corporation over a journalist's report. It just seems more plausible to me that

I'm at the point, unfortunately, that I would believe the statement of a retail corporation over a journalist's report. It just seems more plausible to me that this journalist is spinning sordid, dreary car thefts into a tale of monstrous corporate incompetence; than that Hertz representatives consistently and callously make false police reports.