I assume if Aviation week was more concerned with sales than unbiased and independent reporting they would have kept Bill on. However they suspended him and gave a public statement as to why.
If they want to sell biased garbage, and become an aviation tabloid in order to make money that's their choice, but they don't seem to want to go down that road and their reputation seems important to them.
Most magazines make their money from advertising, not sales of copies. Whether or not that is relevant in this case, I could not possibly know.