Doesn’t matter, that’s not the point of the conversation, you’re the only one obsessing about that. It is perfectly congruent to e.g. believe they should have the right to report on whatever they want but that what they did still wasn’t worthwhile journalism.

Are you incapable of separating legality from rightness? You don’t have to e.g. believe that cutting in line should be illegal to also believe it’s not a nice thing to do.