On considering the nasty reception accorded to the Yukon News reporter on election night, your Blogress has come up with an fairly decent analogy:

Election campaigns are a lot like a game of soccer, or baseball. In Yukon's case, of course, there were supposed to be 3 teams on the field, contending for goals. However, the Yukon News - a NEWS paper - also got on the field and entered the game. It made this crystal clear when the paper ran that fevered front page editorial just before the election, after it had consistently attacked the Yukon Party throughout the campaign.

If members of other political parties had dropped in on the party, they would have been treated with the respect and goodwill accorded honest competitors, win or lose. However, if you try to be BOTH on the stands and IN the game, you can expect to be met with contempt. And that is why the Yukon Party gathering was so unpleasant to the Yukon News "reporter": on Election night, the Yukon News thought it should now be treated as an "objective reporter of news". That was an act of rank hypocrisy, one that was met with honest, straightforward anger.