So that somebody reading the story can look at the Facebook post, Tweet, or whatever, so that we can form our own opinion as to the hatefulness of the post.
Instead, the vast majority of these sorts of stories read something like, "Twitter is ablaze after Jeb Muckenfuss' racist Tweets tweets this morning. I'm not going include them in the story, but take my word for it, it was racist."
How about "journalists" allowing their readers to judge for themselves?