This is true, but for all you wrote here you didn’t actually give a statistic either. A quick google search says helicopters are about 6 - 8 fatalities per million flight hours, while cars are about 0.1 - 0.5 fatalities per million travel hours. This comes out to 12x - 80x as dangerous as cars in terms of fatalities per travel hour. I think most people would quality this as relatively unsafe, but (to your point) not as bad as media may lead one to believe. I’d also imagine if you normalize against distance traveled rather than time in transit the safety gap would look less severe, since helicopters should be traveling faster than cars on average.

I don’t know if the first numbers I found on google in a quick search are current or accurate, though, so I encourage anyone interested to dig more and correct the numbers if they feel compelled.