I suspect incidents like the one you mentioned might be one of the reasons why traditional journalism is running into trouble. It's completely lost touch with the public it supposedly serves, treating a significant portion of the mainstream with contempt and trying to foster narratives that a significant amount of people don't agree with (but which happily align with those of politicians or the current government). It's why only 40% of the American public trust the media as of 2015. *

Perhaps the one sided coverage of various issues, the refusal to cover certain issues and other such problems are why the news business is finding it so hard to keep afloat.

* http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/30/media/media-trust-americans/