Without the internet, this would have been spiked. I wonder how many scandals involving "progressives" have been spiked over the decades of the MSM mediacracy. I have a personal friend who had a career as a journalist, but quit after he saw too many cases where where conservatives were hounded for any small infraction, but stories involving "progressives" were routinely spiked.
He had worked his way up to a major market (Minneapolis), but couldn't function in the environment of the MSM.
Conservative reporters today either made it outside of the MSM, or were liberal, then converted to conservative after they made it high enough to have some protection.
Gunwalker is more like the Gleiwitz incident or the Reichstag fire.