The only standard by which news organizations feel comfortable evaluating a policy is success or failure, not right or wrong.
News organizations think about policy in terms of what works or does not.
So little cause for carolings     Of such ecstatic soundWas written on terrestrial things     Afar or nigh around,That I could think there trembled through     His happy good-night airSome blessed Hope, whereof he knew     And I was unaware.