"Choose to believe"? I read reports from Rome and elsewhere, and then I determine their value, if any. For example, spin-doctors' statements (and you've given us a few):- I regard these as the least useful 'reports', because often the spokesman is trying to deflect, rather than to inform.
If I understand the nub of your 'position' - and, indeed, your 'premise' - it is that you believe that the whole 'Burke phenomenon' has been invented  by what you call "the US for-profit media" so that Pope Francis may have an artificial (i.e., a created) "nemesis" who is pretending opposition to him but who in reality is "unimportant". You believe that the Pope - backed, so you claim, by this "for-profit media" - is in total charge of the whole Church, and able to do whatever he likes, wherever. 
Is that your position? I think so. And I maintain that it's contradicted by all the facts - both in this 'Malta' case, and in many other instances. Burke is and remains a real threat to Pope Francis.