You're constructing an artificial dichotomy of blame here. You're attempting to say that we can only blame the couple or only blame the broadcaster.
Does the general sentiment that 'no one likes a gossiper' only apply to private information?
Example:
1. I'm with a friend in public
2. I pick my nose
3. No one notices but my friend
4. My friend then shouts at the top of his
lungs, "Hey everybody! This guy just picked
his nose."
Are you going to pin a medal on my friend because you dislike people that pick their nose in public?
You're constructing a strawman. No one is trying to pin a medal on anybody here.
Some people are trying to publicly crucify Boyle (the irony is delicious, by the way) for exposing to ridicule those who deserve nothing else.
You don't need to construe his actions as particularly meritorious in order to not find him ethically deficient.
Ethics, by the way, are what the blog post linked to brought up. Ethics are also not the determinate factor in the conduct of a friendship, so you're doubly off in the woods.
Does the general sentiment that 'no one likes a gossiper' only apply to private information?
Example:
Are you going to pin a medal on my friend because you dislike people that pick their nose in public?