At the end of the day, as noted in the article, different data has to be presented in different ways, or actually the same set of data may be presented in different ways, it depends on what you want to focus on, what exactly is your subject of interest, et cetera. But, and that's my point, if the entity responsible is not interested in how to represent data or a certain conclusion one has made as clearly as possible to the public, but to sell newspapers and get clicks[1], then what do you expect?

So it is not my intention to disregard any form of presenting/visualizing data without a specific example or proper context.

[1] It is my personal belief that Social Media, Twitter, and the short attention span of the modern age all aided extremely in this. If you look at "sophisticated media outlets" at Facebook, they are playing the click-bait game nevertheless. How to be on Facebook or Twitter and not be a tabloid?