To be honest, I do see where you're coming from.
However I think a newspaper using her tragic death incessantly solely as a means to boost their own profits (IMHO that's the only reason they do it) is just as terrible, and should be picked up on - if that is done through humour then so be it...
Mocking the death of Maddie is obviously bang out of order. Mocking the Daily Express's obsession with it is entirely different. I don't want to get involved in an argument myself but, for what it's worth, I suspect SM was doing the latter...
Spotted a "Special Edition" of the Daily Express with this lovely headline, and it made me think... "I wonder what the good people of NSC would do if there was a referendum on this today".
So - given that we probably need something to distract us from SheepShaggerGate... here's a poll to keep...