[zaphar]

Things can also have perfectly reasonable explanations and be working as intended and still be an example of waste and scandalous. Just because you can see how it happened and why it happened doesn't mean you have to agree that the why and how are necessarily good reasons.

[TeMPOraL]

"Perfectly reasonable explanations / working as intended" and "example of waste and scandalous" are mutually exclusive IMO. You're right in principle, but what I see in practice is something completely different. Reasonable situations can be - and are - painted as ridiculous with proper application of journalistic freedom. It'd be better if people were thinking more critically about what they read, but outrage seems to be a pretty good mindhack the media learned to exploit. So I believe it is their moral responsibility not to abuse the gullibility of the readers.