A point that a fair number of readers seem not to be getting is this: The problem isn’t that journalists made jokes about a grim story. The problem is that they based their jokes on pretty much all the facts and backstory of the story except for the single most salient and chronically overlooked one, and in so doing…

We actually think about this a lot and it’s one reason why our sports coverage isn’t quite aligned with public preferences.

Well, purely capitalistically, because literally millions of you click on them.