It's the media's fault again

Andy McCarthy at The Corner, on the horrible revalition if the beheading of Paul Johnson:

There are two possible story lines here: choice (a) Paul Johnson was viciously beheaded today, becoming just the latest of thousands of victims slaughtered by a menace that cannot be managed, need not be culturally understood, and must be totally eradicated; or choice (b) Paul Johnson died today; an Arabic website, upon first breaking the news, explained that his death was retaliation for the scandalous abuse of Iraqi prisoners by occupying U.S. forces in Baghdad, where the Bush administration is alleged to have employed harsh interrogation tactics -- in violation of the Geneva Conventions -- in order to press for intelligence about weapons of mass destruction which have yet to be found.

Once again it's the media's fault those abuses occurred and came to light. I have a few questions, very quickly before I am late to work.
1) If hundreds of thousands chased down the horrific Nick Berg beheading on-line, would they not have done the same for the torture pictures at Abu Ghraib?
2)US reporting of our justification for torture claims is different from reporting the reason for their claims of torture is different how again?
3) Does Andy McCarthy really claim there that we need not culturally understand anti-American Muslims, and that if we did understand them it would be of no help in the war on terror?