No, that is false. And if you weren't able to figure out Drupal, you should've at least tried Rails. It sounds like it would do everything that you describe, but more efficiently.
Danno12, there's a fairly sizable Django community in media because the software was developed by a newspaper's tech staff (the Lawrence Journal-World). There's some good Rails development happening too, with the NY Time, ProPublica and others.
Actually, I've decided that ProPublica's approach is pretty weak by comparison. There are other shops doing it much better.