I could've phrased it better - I meant that that the whole unfolding of events generally doesn't reflect well on participants. Just getting sucked into a mudfight is bad, though their response was good. I'll do a clarity edit.

For context, here's my exact edits:

Before - This whole thing is coming across pretty amateurish on all sides.

After - This sort of thing never winds up reflecting well on people involved, just getting caught up in a personal back and forth and speculating on people's motives and nonsense like that.

The part where they didn't say if Lamo is telling the truth or not.

"and the principal is also embodied in the Society of Professional Journalists’ code of ethics"

I'm not usually one to pick on spelling, but when such an egregious error is present in an article by a supposedly professional news organisation defending the professionalism of said news organisation, it is hard for it not to hurt the credibility of their entire writing, fact checking and proof-reading pipeline.