It is infuriating. One of many reasons I don't attend mainstream news at all anymore.
And absolutely which is why they do it all the time, guaranteed a massive over the top reaction from people who want to feel justifiably outraged and have zero emotional control (that thing Taraz likes to yammer on about incessantly XD).
It's so annoying.
The way I see it is that journalists are really the only defense society has against high-level corruption of politicians and CEOs - but they're not going to spend time and money doing that work when they can just earn their coin on low-effort, non-news articles about one person's social media opinion.