It's my understanding that "publishing bad news" does not equate to the subject in question being "true", certainly not in today's media climate. Had the OP said something like: "publishing evidence of bad things" then of course that the discussion would have been totally different. And to judge by the discussion in this thread the linked article is not "evidence", is merely "news".

To recapitulate: willingly publishing "bad news" (which you don't have any evidence that they might be true or not) in order to financially gain stuff on a stock exchange should be treated as securities fraud.