What a confusing mess of an article. I’m having trouble figuring out who got fired... The guys that wrote the note or the ones that bitched and moaned about it?
These days, “Dog Bites Man” story would be that, after the investigation, the executives instructing news personnel to cover “both sides” were fired in order to avoid a decrease in the company’s DIE score.
In the “Man Bites Dog” version of the story, the pantywaist LGBTQIA+MYNAMEISLEGION complainers are voted off the island. This despite the inevitable negative impact on the company’s DIE score.
“I’m having trouble figuring out who got fired... “
The good guys got fired because they wanted de-emphasize sin, and give equal coverage about normalcy. (At least that’s how I read it.)