The media industry sees this as a threat to their industry/tribe and does a circle the bandwagons reaction using their convenient tool at hand. Writing article

The media industry sees this as a threat to their industry/tribe and does a circle the bandwagons reaction using their convenient tool at hand. Writing articles in widely published publications. On top of it, these people are probably friends-of-friends publishing these articles. That is why it gets more attention than many other instances of similar behavior in similar situations.