There is a code among journalists to get each other’s backs in the field.

Idiot.

First, there's no honor among criminals.

Second, your fellow journalist want you broke, homeless, your wife dead, your children raped, and they think it's funny. The only reason her 'fellow journalist' didn't pull a gun and shoot her in the middle of the street is because it would look bad for anti-gun journalists to illegally conceal carry firearms, and that is literally all.