That few people believe this man's tale or the media's rendering of it is encouraging. The political propaganda being passed around  as truth has never been stronger, especially as one media source merely copies from another. It was once up to reporters to sniff out the BS but now it's the reader's job. This man's story doesn't sit right because it diverges from reasonable human action -  but it's being pumped around global media, as though desperately trying to control our feelings about the story before we get a chance to unwind it for ourselves. 

Media: His story doesn't make sense. Your job is to investigate shadey truths, not promote them prima facie