Practically all news reporting does a terrible job of covering complex fields. Ask a doctor what they think of a medical story, or scientist about a story on their field of study. It is always the same - terrible.

A lot of that is because the reporters, not being experts themselves, just don't have the contextual knowledge to grasp the implications of what they come across in their investigation. Unimportant details get played up, subtleties are completely lost, and things with similar names get conflated.