The people with power over the journalists' career and reputation are in this case the party they'd piss off by doing proper journalism. They're not gonna do it

The people with power over the journalists' career and reputation are in this case the party they'd piss off by doing proper journalism. They're not gonna do it. It's indirectly the main reason why no one trusts journalists in general anymore. Nearly everything is consolidated under the same people and whatever isn't gets smeared and blacklisted.