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ZD – even if what you are writing is true (which I’m not sure about, and a sheilah should certainly be asked), the way it was reported is problematic. For example, the headline, “Peleg enjoying Bein Hazmanim shutting roads down” was completely inappropriate!
What right do they have to say that they are enjoying it? Who says that they are not seriously distressed over the possibility of yiddishe kinder being forced or pressurred to stop being Frum and that they are not acting l’sheim Shamayim and following a Gadol who is their Rav? They are not doing this out of enjoyment, but rather out of distress and out of a desire to follow Daas Torah. You can disagree if you like, but you don’t have a right to criticize their motives and defame them that way!
One of the many conditions of lashon hora l’toeles is that you are not allowed to leave out information that would minimize the severity of the person’s actions.
If what you are writing is true, that would only be the case if they made sure to write the article in such a way that it explains why they are doing this and what other Gedolim say and why others disagree (but in a respectful intellectual fashion, not a negative name-calling one).