Don't get the comparison you're trying to make Damocles - or more importantly, it's a disingenuous comparison. Arsenal's tactics were based on them already leading from the first leg - which you know and others have pointed out.
So this is solely about the media's reaction - well then that can be explained away pretty quickly too. Arsenal are one of the most 'attack' minded teams in world football. They are married to a philosophy which they use week in and week out to great effect. Their team has been put together at a fraction of the cost ours was put together at (and a fraction of what Barca's team cost) and yet they are still currently miles ahead of us in terms of the way they play, never mind the results they get. If you think they deserve to be panned in the way we were you're wrong. If you think the media are being hypocritical you're wrong. It's simply a case of them coming up against a team who it would have been suicidal to try and attack - which IMO is absolutely not the case with our game at the Emirates. We could and maybe should have attacked a little more, but as others have said we were nowhere near good enough on the night to do that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not justifying the media's attacks on us after that game - some of what was written as a disgrace - but I just think of all the examples you could have used, last night's match is a really bad one...