There's no way any reasonable person can believe for a minute that advertising doesn't have a tremendous impact on what news outlets will publish. You seem to b

There's no way any reasonable person can believe for a minute that advertising doesn't have a tremendous impact on what news outlets will publish. You seem to be operating in some 1950s dream world where the news media is honest and operating in the public interest. > Their goal is to inform, enlighten, provoke, etc. -- to serve their society. No. Their goal is to get eyeballs looking at ads and turn those into conversions so that the paper can sell more ads. If tabloid content achieves that goal, then that's what you will get. If pushing a narrative accomplishes that, or is more profitable in other ways for the shareholders, then you'll get that instead.