Traditional news organizations (magazines and newspapers at least, I can't speak for TV or radio) erect high barriers between the news and content side of their

Traditional news organizations (magazines and newspapers at least, I can't speak for TV or radio) erect high barriers between the news and content side of their operation and the business and advertising side, specifically to stop this kind of interference and fiscal incentive. They know that having a business motive in the reporting damages their credibility and so they avoid it. At the same time, there is another wall between the editorial pages that contain opinion pieces from the news pages that contain objective reporting. Unfortunately, many people don't realize that this wall exists and that when a columnist for a particular paper writes something, they are not representing the viewpoint of everyone at that paper. I don't think TV bothers trying to maintain these distinctions as almost all TV news is opinionated and alarmist. The journalists at most newspapers are still by and large impartial, the problem is that the ones who now get the most attention are the loud, impartial ones.