Well neither of the complainers answered the question.
One is now lobbying for the thread to be shut down, and the other is enamored with asterisks, and calling that old news. The point is that it was never news, it was sensational gossip.
When real news comes out, like the outing of an operative for political gain and then lying about it, some folks don't want to hear it (bury head in sand, shoot the messenger) or are apathetic.
You wonder why there is so much fluff news... because many folks don't want news, they want sensational stories, sharkbites, tornado damage, missing blondes, and now the newest horror child abductions. The motto used to be "If it bleeds it leads", now its "If its young, cute and missing, it leads".
Fox is basically adversarial and interruptive blabbering, CNN is preachy, even some Court TV blonde babblers work to further an bias of guilt, and when it doesn't go their way they bemoan the flawed system.
Too much editorializing and not enough of 'just the facts m'am'.
Don't get me wrong, some readers are great and ask questions that makes one think without perverting the facts, but in general the rest are selling their ego's and trying to make controversy where there isn't any, with false facts or 'modified' facts.