[the_optimist]

Your statement follows a pattern of, ‘the person was doing X therefore the unjustifiable response was justified.’ This fails the commonly adopted Rawlsian theory of justice (Veil of Ignorance), and it is known as victim blaming.

[websites420]

I made no statement about whether anyone's actions were justified, only that they made sense given the state of affairs.

[the_optimist]

If you're not trying to justify it, then no, it doesn't make sense at all. The media failed (or purposefully sought not) to deliver information in a useful form.

Delivering such information is supposedly the reason the media exists. There's no merit or utility in extending that abject failure to the information source or destination.