I'm not sure it matters about whom a false story is printed. The point is that it was false. It was rushed to print without getting the whole story. Obviously,

I'm not sure it matters about whom a false story is printed. The point is that it was false. It was rushed to print without getting the whole story. Obviously, in the era of internet journalism it's important to get stories out as fast as possible, but (it seems to me) the incentive for getting out stories quickly that are likely to trigger outrage is pretty high. This particular example is rather salient because it is recent,the evidence of false reporting is fairly clear, and because the cost to the victims of this journalistic malfeasance is fairly high.