They certainly biased their own readership by announcing the editorial agenda ahead of time. It would have been far more interesting to do this unannounced and

They certainly biased their own readership by announcing the editorial agenda ahead of time. It would have been far more interesting to do this unannounced and then inspect the results. Given how nearly universally conditioned the general population is towards "negative" news people probably just took this to mean no "real" news would be published that day.