Regarding whether this is news.  This year, perhaps more than others, we have seen the trivialization of news, a lost compass for what is significant, important, and relevant.   When one candidate gives a serious policy speech, it is hardly covered, but when the other hits the gutter with personal and childish insults, it makes the front pages.   Everyone knows that the news business is struggling to prioritize its time, its space, its resources, its decision making to survive.  

Therefore, the question is not Do people love to eat up the trivial and personal? but, What are the priorities of the news department?  And,   What is the media telling the public about what is important or not important?

What stories or investigations were not done in order to post this story?  What time or resources were spent posting the video?  What decisions were made about stories that were thought to be not as newsworthy?