Orientation

Recently I saw an article about Catholic priests in Italy being caught in gay clubs clearly violating their vow of celibacy. A reporter was apparently trying to illustrate hypocrisy in the church vis-a-vis preists' behavior & this tenet of church doctrine. Score: reporter 1, church 0.

Simultaneous with this I found an online reference to an organization that works with Catholics who have a homosexual orientation, but still desire to follow the Church's call to celibacy in that particular circumstance. The Church teaches that having the orientation is not a sin.. only the insistence on gratifying it is. This organization came to light because a reporter joined the group under false pretenses and then "outed" one of the priests who was trying in good conscience to obey church teaching.

So on one hand, a reporter is trying to expose hypocrisy in the church, and on the other hand a reporter is trying to undermine an attempt to be consistently obedient to church teaching.

With the press, I guess you can't win for losing. But still, I'd like to know: since when does the media have an "orientation" to cause harm instead of to do good? At what point did the primary focus of the media become exposing... instead of reporting? And why there is such a media fascination with homosexuality?

I mean, why is it even a story at all?