The "Press" is no different than any other business (with the odd honourable exception).
They are selling a product to a finely defined and segmented market. They will package their product and aim it at a specific audience which has been market researched to the endth degree.They know what their readers like and they keep giving them more of the same. If that means shaping the news to fit the readership profile then so be it.This "policy" you can spot in any newspaper. However what is more difficult to spot is the "policy" of news management by omission, or to give it it's proper name, CENSORSHIP.This is a word media claim to hate ,yet it is practiced every day by newspapers in a very deliberate way.So don't expect comparisons between apples it's mutch more interesting to give apples a bad name by comparing them with plums.