thedguy
rides with Rebecca Black.. in the back
Ok, hypothetical situation here. Lets say you're driving on the freeway and come up on 2 cars that have just been in an accident, and because you were to busy staring at the accident you neglected that turn in the road ahead and wreck your car. Does that make your wreck their fault? After all they were drawing your attention away. As I said before, if these charges (assuming they have actually tried to) stick, then such a precident would exist and you'd be able to (in the example above) sue them for damages.
Just because it's the "media's job to cover this" doesn't mean they aren't obsolved of any responsibility themselves.