Respectable news organizations have traditionally at least played lip service to keeping their journalists/editors separate from their business/advertising peop

Respectable news organizations have traditionally at least played lip service to keeping their journalists/editors separate from their business/advertising people, such that the journalists are free to publish articles that run contrary to the business interests of the paper. (Example: https://www.nytimes.com/editorial-standards/ethical-journalism.html#advertisersMarketingPromotion https://www.nytimes.com/editorial-standards/ethical-journali...) Of course, Wired is not a respectable publication, and this just goes to show that.