Valentine's Day

In honor of today's delightfully floral, candy-coated, pink and red holiday, I decided to search "valentine's day" on the New York Times website. I was unsurprised to see headlines for a column about the nature of love and a feature on different celebrities' celebrity crushes. However, I was quite interested to see the headline, "Behind Roses' Beauty, Poor and Ill Workers." I guess I should have realized that there must be some negatives behind such a seemingly frivolous holiday, but somehow I was still taken aback to see an article about one of these negatives on Valentine's Day in such a prominent paper.
When I showed this article to my English teacher, she was substantially less surprised than I was, and quite aptly pointed out the movie Blood Diamond, which also points out the horrors behind a product that is typically considered to be romantic. While this is a very similar situation, it somehow seems more acceptable, seeing as it's coming out of the film industry, which seems more of a typical medium for dramatizing situations, rather than an everyday newspaper like the New York Times.
It makes me think, though, about the whole concept of investigative journalism. Should a journalist always look for the other side to a story, even if it's unpleasant? Or should news industries be content with the stories they have, and leave the joyful holidays untouched, so they can go on being joyful? While I'm typically a pretty optimistic person, and would love to see Valentine's Day as just a day full of love, I think newspapers have every right to dig deeper wherever they can. Many people are probably hesitant to taint the image of pleasant holidays. But if there is something serious that people have a right to know, why shouldn't a paper publish it? Many people may feel a twinge of guilt after reading such an article, and then go on happily receiving their roses, even with the knowledge that they were the product of hard labor and toxic conditions. There may, however, be a handful of people inspired to do something about the situation, and change it, so that such an article may not exist in a few years. It's a stretch, but it's a possibility.
Personally, I believe that newspapers are entitled to provide readers with this sort of information. If someone was personally being harmed or attacked through an article, it would be a different story. But in the case of revealing the plight of a group of people that work to make Americans' Hallmark holiday more enjoyable, I believe that newspapers should keep doing what they're doing.
What do you think? Should newspapers continue to put a slight damper on people's Valentine's days in this manner? Rose farm in Ecuador