Most newspapers and magazines in the US have some kind of "fee-per-article" archival service. Some will allow unfettered access to their archives with a regular subscription, but others may ask a fee, even for subscribers.
NYT has its "TimesMachine": https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/ I'm not sure if it's available to non-subscribers. I am a subscriber, but I need to purchase page reprints.
https://www.crikey.com.au/topic/spinning-the-media/
There are a lot of articles listed, but if you scroll down there will be a clump that are actually entitled "spinning the media" all of which are dated in March 2010, which are all the parts to their 'special investigation'.
This article is almost directly relatable to the topic of this thread: https://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/25/spinning-the-media-pre-...
(and it's from 2010 - we've had a decade of normalization between that article and the one that initiated this thread!)
P.S. No paywall!
That is quite a collection!
I logged in with my account and, yes, that story is dead, there's no content. That's disappointing.
I'll send them a notification and see if they'll put it up without a paywall since it's relatively old content (but still pertinent).
Edit: notification sent.