Are atheists the victims of the gullible media who always propose the minuscule negative stories of religions?

Religion often gets the blame for wars, sometimes it is, sometimes not. What often happens is that some people misinterpret and exaggerate religious beliefs for their own ends, causing no end of grief and misery in the name of their religion. Many newspapers have recently carried stories of such cases, where a leader of religion contradicts the utterances of such extremists.