Somewhat ironically, I am in China today, and therefore I can't access the linked article. (Without doing a bunch of convoluted VPN fuckery, I mean.)
But I don't have to read it to know that profit-seeking corporations often kowtow to the various forces that could negatively affect that profit.
Bloomberg has a thing with the totalitarian Chinese regime. The New York Times does favors for the Obama administration. Probably both of them do a lot of bootlicking for their advertisers.
That's why free society needs numerous media outlets, and the legal freedom to report the truth. Because there isn't any obligation for them to report all of the truth, and there isn't any feasible way to force them to do so anyhow.
But at least when we have a bunch of them, the pot will call the kettle black, and remind us how they work.
But I don't have to read it to know that profit-seeking corporations often kowtow to the various forces that could negatively affect that profit.
Bloomberg has a thing with the totalitarian Chinese regime. The New York Times does favors for the Obama administration. Probably both of them do a lot of bootlicking for their advertisers.
That's why free society needs numerous media outlets, and the legal freedom to report the truth. Because there isn't any obligation for them to report all of the truth, and there isn't any feasible way to force them to do so anyhow.
But at least when we have a bunch of them, the pot will call the kettle black, and remind us how they work.