What the eff, Slate?

Seriously. So the images here:

http://www.slate.com/slideshows/life/the-houses-pro-athletes-buy-for-their-mothers.html

get you to the caption on slide 8:

In April 2001, a shadow fell over the five-bedroom, four-bath colonial house Marcus Camby bought for his mother and two sisters in Hartford, Conn. (The dot above shows the vicinity of the home.) A man broke into the home and held one of the then-Knicks center’s sisters hostage. Fortunately, the intruder surrendered peacefully the next morning, after Camby himself showed up at the scene, having been alerted by the police.

Is brain-deaf an appropriate word for this? Are newspapers doing shit like this these days?