You've now driven traffic to news.com.au and given them exactly what they wanted.
For sure. but, hopefully one or two people who go there see it through a slightly different lens than they would have. That media literacy takes time and effort to build.
it used to be that journalism was society's main defense against corruption
It has been a while since much was done. The investment it takes for the 5 minutes it will be seen. Look at how the Panama papers, which was a whistleblower dump so not as much work was needed, just disappeared.
I don't know if you remember the "Family" of pedophiles in Adelaide from the 80s. They killed children and there was evidence supposedly that incriminated some very high up people - disappeared.
The things that actually matter, don't seem to get much light of the day.