This is newsworthy why, exactly?

I happened to see CNN’s breathless coverage of four guys sitting around a patio table having a beer on the White House grounds, and I reached a conclusion:
Our mass media is awful.
I mean, really. A hundred or so reporters and photographers focused on this? Anchor people discussing this seriously, and then throwing it to a reporter on the scene?
It’s a wonder the public doesn’t just tune them out altogether.