No, this strip and others rightly excoriated the media for their behavior. The shame you willfully ignore is that nothing was learned, nothing has changed, things have only gotten worse. To pretend that ‘mainstream’ media is some pillar of truth is laughable (and that does not imply that newer media options have proven to be any better). If anything, ‘mainstream media’ proudly wears its bias on its sleeve these days.
H.L. Mencken: Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.
Isn’t it “D”?