We are in the middle of a media feeding frenzy where everything that goes wrong on a Boeing aircraft is front page news while problems with other aircraft are ignored. Things on aircraft break quite often from defects, old age, and/or poor maintenance. It happens, there are tens of thousands of flights every day. That people can't see this and are now trusting the media's fear mongering (after everything we've been through) boggles my mind.

Boeing has real problems with it's management culture which I describe in a comment below which almost certainly contributed to the very real fuselage plug accident. This other stuff is just media fear porn. People accept it as real since it validates their political beliefs.