The issue with the media isn't generally bias (in this country), it's laziness and urge to make an exciting story where none exists.
I'd probably agree with that. How hard would it have been for Worthington to give Gareth Morgan a ring and say 'hey, saw you at training, what was that all about?'. Not very, but even easier to interview your typewriter and produce a sensationalised non-story. And with the reaction he got in the wider media, he had great success. And so it goes.