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There's obviously differences between the local paper reporting on the local football teams groundsman of 60 years snuffing it in his sleep, and a huge national story being thrust suddenly upon a family. In things as big as this there seem to be loads of journalist circling and scrabbling for whatever scraps they can without consideration given to those going through it.
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Yes absolutely. And I should have said obviously I don't support insensitive, tactless, approaches. There are plenty of good free resources on how to report on death sensitively such as this Journalism.co.uk article:
https://www.journalism.co.uk/skills/how-to-report-on-death-and-suicide-responsibly-as-a-journalist/s7/a547931/So there's no excuse.
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tl:dr - if you want a free press, it's not a buffet. You can't pick and choose.