There is nothing hypocritical in lauding someone for the good they do, and criticizing them for the wrong they do, as interpreted by the journalist. That there will be some hagiography and focus on laudatory actions when the politician has just died is pretty normal, in decent, sane areas of the media.

No responsible media outlet, whatever their perceived bias, is going to do different.

What would be hypocritical and wrong is for a media outlet to only criticize a politician based on ideological disagreement, no matter the actual position the politician has staked out on a given issue.

What would be churlish, immature and indecent would be media outlets continuing to harangue and mistreat a politician even in an obituary.

Apart from that, I find it continually amusing to see all these justifications for Trump's victory. "The media was mean to Republicans, so the Republicans voted in a madman" is not a defense, it is an un-selfaware criticism of a section of the electorate that has gotten so butthurt at contradictory voices in the media that it chose to raze the country to the ground rather than try and reflect on how its positions might be outdated, immoral and unworkable.