Yes. It's willful ignorance on Florio's part.
But at least he's catching up to what has been in the public domain for a long time.
I'm not excusing Florio in his reaction here. But it seems more likely that he simply didn't want to rush to judgment.
I agree that the body of evidence that has been presented or released so far suggests that Manning is at fault. I don't think that is really in doubt. However, coming on the heels of DFG, I can't help but wonder whether Florio may have been a little oversensitive about yet another narrative becoming "the truth" in the eyes of the media before all or most of the facts had been been made public.
What I think Florio fails to appreciate, however, is that Manning and his team have become expert practitioners in driving those one sided narratives – or as he attempted to do in the case of the Al Jazeera story, that he uses his reputational weight to intimidate the media into not reporting the story in the first place.
Put another way, Florio may now agree this story about likely inappropriate behavior by a well-known superstar is important – but can't bring himself to acknowledge that had it not been for Shaun King cobbling together a narrative out of Naughright's filings and other publicly known facts, we almost certainly wouldn't be talking about this at all.