Yeah, but consider the source.
The news media has a saying, and it's a rather cynical and cruel insight into the minds of "reporters" and "news directors". It is "If it bleeds, it leads".
The fact of the matter is that the "News Media" is a filter. It pushes the horrible, the awful, and the gut-wrenching stories, because those are what sell papers and magazines and television commercials. The mundane stories aren't "news". If Joe Ordinary drives 45 minutes to work every day for 10 years with no traffic accidents, that's not news. Then one day he has an accident, and winds up killing someone, that is news.
As Tomy said above, the news story that "Yellowstone is acting entirely normally" wouldn't sell. So even though that is the gist of the story, they "sex it up" with how worried everybody is (or was until they realized it wasn't really an imminent danger).
I've become very cynical about the popular media for the most part. I've also become very cynical about press releases touting the next great scientific advance (because those are "sexed up" by the universities looking for grant donors), and I've learned that the image of the lone scientist making advances by bucking the system is pretty much a myth (at least for the most part).
Don't trust what you hear or read in the popular media. The reporter who wrote it probably doesn't understand the issue any better than you do, and if you spent an hour researching the issue you will probably know five times as much as they did when they wrote the article.