Sam Bankman-Fried donated money to a wide variety of causes, the vast majority of which weren't journalists. If you want to read more about where he donated, here's the article where the quote comes from: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/8/8/23150496/effecti...
>"if you guys are so charitable, then why are you giving this money to political candidates and PACs, rather than to charitable causes?"
Obviously those gifts don't excuse SBF's massive fraud! But it's not as if SBF was only donating to political candidates and nothing else.
So I don't think the journalists did anything particularly wrong here. (Unless you think crypto is so sketchy that they should have treated _anyone_ connected to crypto as presumably fraudulent -- in which case, fair, I guess.)