However, I think a journalist is seriously delinquent if they don't acknowledge that insiders normally schedule their stock trades ahead of time to insulate from insider trading accusations. A reader needs to know whether this was the case or not in order to be appropriately outraged.
It was. I posted the SEC PR filing in reply to another comment on this article.
> I think a journalist is seriously delinquent if they don't acknowledge ...
I'm not sure I agree. If you consider how many topics journalists write about and how much necessary context that they would have to background-boilerplate, a 2 sentence update could easily become the length and readability of a ToS contract.
If there is one single thing that you could put in a sentence or two, but it makes your article irrelevant, then the maximum word count is not the reason it was left out.
This isn't like, one article with a unique context. There have been lots of similar ones and will continue to be.
"Insider trading creates perverse incentives" would not inherently mean that the purported insider trading by equifax executives was a bad thing.