Being paid doesn't make journalists free of incentives: it just changes where those incentives lie. The New York Times, for example, is busy blowing up a hundr

Being paid doesn't make journalists free of incentives: it just changes where those incentives lie. The New York Times, for example, is busy blowing up a hundred years of reputation to try to pretend the Republican and Democratic parties are equally deserving of criticism because its readers want to feel intellectually superior to "partisans". Paid news will deliver what its users want, and it is dangerous to pretend that that is "objective" or "true" just because that's what the PR says.