Insider Trading [0] is a crime in the US.
"Insider trading creates perverse incentives" would not inherently mean that the purported insider trading by equifax executives was a bad thing.
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.
> 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.
This isn't like, one article with a unique context. There have been lots of similar ones and will continue to be.