"For the system to work as efficiently as it does" I doubt the efficiency of this system. I suggest that the incentives are mostly politically oriented, in th

"For the system to work as efficiently as it does" I doubt the efficiency of this system. I suggest that the incentives are mostly politically oriented, in the sense that editorial staff truly feel aligned with something they feel important to them, in addition to the 'money' incentive, which is severe in the world of news; they are always going out of business, and in a constant fight for ratings / viewers. There's a very serious and existential push to 'make money or die'. Both of those elements combine to create a market orientation. If you consider news to be simply a product like any other, then you have 'customers' within specific 'demographics' and the editorialists to be 'product managers' with a 'P&L' ... when then they are incented to hustle the kind of information that fires those customers up and gets them clicking. Taking a completely culturally secular view, one could argue the papers are just carving out their customer segments, just as any competing brands would.