I'm not a journalist, expected to report news in an unbiased form. I posted my opinion. I expected a response, but not one quite so vehemently against me or so heavily biased against the guy that killed the dog. Maybe I could have just skipped the thread altogether and let it be a "pat ourselves on the back and congratulate each other for being such good animal lovers" thread, but that wouldn't have been true to my tendencies.
Oh yeah, as for the volume on these forums, ask the vast majority of forum users who are not technically inclined what "Anandtech" is, and I'm sure you'll get "huh?" as a response. No real point to me mentioning that, but there really wasn't any point in comparing the forums to a news agency either.