Person1- it’s wonderful that you want to do something about stopping motzi shem ra, but I think your post is (inadvertant) motzi shem ra. You have to be EXTREMELY careful about what you post online. Everything that is written here can be and is read by the entire world, and it stays forever (or at least until the Moderators delete it if they do, but even then, it could have been copied and pasted m/w). That is why the Internet is so dangerous, and why we have to be so EXCEEDINGLY careful about what we write online.
I once heard a shiur on this topic (can’t remember from who, but it was someone well-known – it was some kind of teleconference Yom Iyun on Shmiras Halashon). The Rav was talking about how being a baal lashon hara is one of the worst aveiros; it is one of the few things you lose your cheilik in Olam Haba for permanently! Before Internet, it wasn’t so easy to be a baal loshon hara, but now it is very hard NOT to be.
Anything you write online can be read by the ENTIRE WORLD in seconds. It is particularly bad to speak about a group and really bad to speak about all of Am Yisrael. It is REALLY bad to speak about Gedolei Yisrael! It is also REALLY bad to speak about the Frum community (in particular) to goyim or secular Jews, and that is what people are doing when they speak badly about the Frum community online. By writing the above post, although it may have been unintentional, that IS what you just did.
I understand that you are really upset by the things you read and you felt that there was a toeles in this, but that is not the case. Mesira (I think that’s the halachic term for this) is a really big aveira and is not justified in this case. Also, if the problem really exists (which I am not mekabel), this is not the way to solve it. Write a letter yourself if you have seen such things. Telling others about it is just increasing motzi shem ra. I was NEVER told that I was allowed to spread any loshon hara I saw in the newspapers; I was simply told that I should write to the editors of the newspaper in question.
In terms of the specific issue that you are referring to, I actually don’t know what you are talking about. I don’t read Israeli newspapers and I haven’t read any newspaper in a while. If you really think there is a problem, you should definitely write to the editors, but you should think carefully first about whether or not there really is a problem, and you should be careful how you phrase it. You certainly should not be spreading motzi shem ra about the Frum world by announcing this issue (whether or not it really exists) to anyone but the perpetrators.
In general, Frum newspapers do try to be exceedingly careful about Loshon Hara issues, and they general do act according to Daas Torah. Of course, they make mistakes at time, as is the nature of newspapers, and that is why it is important to point it out to them if they did so. But this should be done from the perspective that you are assuming that it was an error, etc. Also, you should examine the context carefully – context makes all the difference, and often, something that seems like l”h really isn’t because of the context and vice versa.
Yasher koach on your efforts!