Supercatholic,
Three hail maries, repentance, and all will be forgiven...
Here is my conclusion,
Actually reporting something like this on broadcast TV news defeats the purpose of entertainment. Entertainment is meant to make you feel better, to support the fantasy bubble of laziness which makes your life easier---paying the government to pass laws and solve problems---the natural easy way to avoid any responsibility. The more repressed guilt you feel about your lacking to take responsibility, the more money you throw at something with the hope that someone else will simply fix it. Also crucial to this bubble is the fantasy that somehow life can be made fair and equal for everyone, so any use of objective thinking in combination with statistics to single out a group of individuals by credit score, race, gender, religion, nationality, job status, etc (and actually target the source of a problem) has to be strictly avoided and instead you must equally suppress all individuals and thus not actually solve anything (ie gun laws).
Given that the market for broadcast TV news is mostly lefties, it would be anti-capitalistic to do anything that might burst the fantasy bubble, make them angry, cause them to stop watching, and thus through loss of viewers, loose the advertising revenue which keeps the machine running.
So seriously, this has nothing to do with the Church. No need to go on the defensive about the Catholic religion over a few bad apples, which statistically is going to happen given human nature. The objective thing to do is to accept this fact and instead of being defensive and trying to make excuses for someone, say it how it is.