There's national newspapers that do the basic equivalent of posting "junkie" on a grieving mother's Facebook page. In those cases I also believe the Just World hypothesis plays a part. The people who read such papers have to believe the poor and the vulnerable are responsible for their own misfortune, or else they can't explain their own comfortable existance, and therefore have no reason to believe it will continue.
BTW, that pulitzer-winning story is deeply affecting. I read it years ago and think about it often.
BTW, that pulitzer-winning story is deeply affecting. I read it years ago and think about it often.