"And don't forget to add the media's PC complicity in slanting the reporting on this story, in the early days.
There should be some serious soul searching in media circles on this one, but I doubt it will happen."
No and why should it?
Like sharks in the open ocean, they are top-of-the-food-chain predators, without fear of retribution from anyone for errors, sensationism, negligence or unabashed lying. And they know it.
I prefer to think of them as dinosaurs, and we small mammals on Internet forums are starting to eat their eggs.