I think we should also remember that the journalists themselves are harried by a stack of bastards right up to THE EDITOR himself to get more profit-increasing punch. There is a vast difference between a "Writers' Paper" like the Guardian or, back in the pre-Murdoch day, The Times, or the Washington Post, and the Sun. Not only is the Sun a whizz-bang-bull!!!! bigoted tabloid, it is also terribly authoritarian. Any pro writer will tell you that what they file on a paper like that has surprisingly little to do with what gets printed after it has passed through a subeditor and a section editor and the news editor and possibly even the editor himself. And it is one of those who will write the headline. We all loathe management who demand that we endanger our professional standards - the journalists have bastard bosses too, and they have all seen stories of theirs twisted and ****ed up by the paper for commercial reasons or the Boss's political views.
Being turned into a liar without knowing it must be pretty bad.