Goodness me, gentlemen, are you really so prejudiced that you fail to see the significance of what this reporter has done?
He has responded to a whistleblower who has, presumably for very good reasons, reported a potential breach of aviation security. He has established that the reported breach exists (by seeking to test it) and has now brought it to public attention.
This is precisely what a professional journalist ought to do.
Surely you can see that it is in the best interests of all but the terrorist that such lax security is quickly exposed. It is also in the best interests of professional aviators, is it not?
Come on, give the guy a break. He was doing his job and, IMHO, doing it very well indeed. That he causes some embarrassment at FLS, GO, or the airport authority is a small price to pay for correction of such a potentially disastrous oversight.