The facts themselves do matter, its the reporting by the general media that could be done better to provide a clearer picture up front. In the above story it would be interesting to see if it was reported a year earlier that they had large profits from the one time sale, not that this changes the current article only that the bad reporting goes both ways. In general people owe it to themselves to consider what they read, hear, etc, critically and not be blindly led by what is fed to them. I do not feel sorry for anyone who makes poor decisions based on news blurbs inparticular without any additional effort to verify the truth or the underlying realities of such information.