At the end of the day, they are all individuals with their own biases, ambitions or plain irrationality. You just have to take that into account in all you read and hear.

It's not the bosses but their customers that are the problem.

Given the bundled nature of mass news media, it's impossible for customers to send a signal for example that CNN news specifically isn't up to their standard. They can cut the cord on a whole set of products or keep their cable bundle neither of which sends signal to CNN about the quality of their journalism.

More niche publications don't have that problem, but I think a big question is how we systemically increase the quality of mass journalism.