[Goose]

But I do think that our newspaper of record should have skipped this one. Am I wrong?

FWIW, I am glad these events are reported. It does mean the public has to understand it is a one off, and possibly the public won't do that. However, not reporting it means you are self-censoring and deciding the public has "no need to know". News sources can't do that. If there were several thousand such reports that all got self-censored that would be a problem, but nobody would know.
The newspaper should report what actually happened without coloring it. The woman went to the Hospital and is apparently OK. End of story. If they express opinions, or try to turn the one case into a trend, that is a different situation, and shouldn't happen.

[Goose]

But I do think that our newspaper of record should have skipped this one. Am I wrong?

FWIW, I am glad these events are reported. It does mean the public has to understand it is a one off, and possibly the public won't do that. However, not reporting it means you are self-censoring and deciding the public has "no need to know". News sources can't do that. If there were several thousand such reports that all got self-censored that would be a problem, but nobody would know.
The newspaper should report what actually happened without coloring it. The woman went to the Hospital and is apparently OK. End of story. If they express opinions, or try to turn the one case into a trend, that is a different situation, and shouldn't happen.