I give the local media 4 Milbury's on the Puck Daddy/Mike Milbury rating scale. If you watched the trade deadline show on Sportsnet, you get what I'm referencing.
There is very little insight from anyone in the local media really. It seems that they play up the negative angle, because negativity sells. It's a bit of a chicken-egg riddle, is the media negative because that's the mood of the fan base, or is the fan base negative because that's how the media is telling them to feel? From the negativity, it would be easy to assume that they are an 8th place team, and not a team that only has 3 more regulation losses than a Ducks team that's been on fire and yet can still be caught by the Canucks.
All those questions to Luongo and MG, and no one asked the key question. MG made a long term commitment to Luongo, so what changed over the course of a single playoff game win by Schneider to completely reverse this commitment? Why is it on Luongo to move, when he signed that contract thinking he'd have long term stability in Vancouver? For the past two years before that series, the media constantly hounded MG and Schneider over a possible Schneider deal, and how he felt about it. Now it's not even mentioned by reporters, even though moving Schneider would be the easier move, likely bring back more assets, and may in fact be the better strategic long term move for the franchise.
It's always the same questions over and over. Nobody is digging or doing in depth research (hello, advanced stats?) to ask better questions. Instead, they just re-phrase questions that have been asked and answered already.