You reacted to "the framing" of the article seemingly without reading it, but even with that you reacted to that framing differently at the start and end of your post which made it superficially incoherent.

I largely agree that the media plays a large role in setting a narrative and coloring stories to fit that narrative, but that isn't what the article is discussing at all.

I think your dispute (because it's largely with "the framing" and not the content) is largely semantic in nature (as are most of the rabbles that got roused by the title of this article in this thread), but the reality is that the article's content contains the specific steps they took and found to be reproducible, and the findings of those studies are largely consistent with the framing everyone here has such a problem with.