Welcome to the M.O. of every (ex-) Gawker Media site. Find something on the internet that hasn't been covered, re-post it with enough summary to masquerade as an independent post, and get coverage on aggregator sites where most viewers never even glance at the original media.
FWIW, I rarely desire to find out about something like this via a YouTube video. I'm rarely somewhere I want to listen to something with sound. When I am, I still usually would rather get to the point than listen through a ten minute narrative. Even if Gawker sites solely existed to regurgitate YouTube videos to text... I'd pay for that service.