These articles are written by people who have incentive to write such articles. Those who are contractors do not bother running around asking journalists to wri

These articles are written by people who have incentive to write such articles. Those who are contractors do not bother running around asking journalists to write stories about how much they enjoy being independent they just focus on driving Uber. A small % of people on other hand try to create a lobby for this sort of things and the opportunist politicians will use this to arm twist Uber and Lyft to seek rent. This creates a need for journalists who write these biased stories.