Be happy there was any press coverage at all - the reporters aren't going to get in the weeds like that, and neither are the press releases.
Isn't that a financial reporter's job? To get into the weeds like that? If all they're going to do is summarize the press releases, they're not adding anything to the process.
They weren't going to get that - that's not the way negotiations work.
When you're guilty, it's not supposed to be a negotiation. It's supposed to be a sentence.