Seeking opinions: should media do background checks to find controversy in even feel good stories?

[MadDAsHell]

3. I think the age is less of an issue than that they dug it up at all. Why?

I don't buy the "readers need the whole story" bag.

I have never read an article on someone and thought, "boy I wish I knew every single thing this person ever did in their entire life, especially the bad stuff."

This reporter went back through EIGHT years of social media posts to find these two tweets.

With the public now having knowledge of that kind of practice, aren't they pretty much guaranteeing that almost nobody will want to talk to them about anything, even when on its face the story itself should be a very positive one? EVERYBODY has skeletons.