Yes, it's disturbing, to say the least. It's sensational, in the worst sense of the word. It's making hay out of tragedy. These are all reasons why they shouldn't do it. However, they have every right to do it, just as we all have every right to boycott it, and the advertisers in the issue.
The only thing that a company like this would hear is the sound of falling revenue.
You are right in what you say....but after a while wouldn't doing this almost become a form/way of censorship.
Keeping people from printing or saying some very true thoughts because of fear of losing their job or even their own business?
almost a form of bullying if you look at it from a side view. Right in one way but oh so wrong in another.