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That's not what the general consensus is.
General consensus is that malfunctions happen more often with a semi auto, but, when a revolver malfunctions it's a real show stopper.
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Such is not always the case in my experience as I've seen revolvers have problems that were quickly and easily remedied and semi-autos lock up so tight that they had to be disassembled to get them running again. Case in point, my dad's Ruger SP101 once seemingly locked up for no reason. As it turned out, one of the primers had backed out and was binding against the recoil shield. Simply opening the cylinder and ejecting the offending case cured the issue. One the other hand, I once had a grossly out-of-spec 9mm round (factory, I don't reload 9mm) jam so tightly in the chamber of my CZ-75 that I had to fieldstrip the gun in order to get it out. So, in my experience, the "semi-auto is easier to clear" argument doesn't hold water.