We all do our jobs for money. That is, for a profit.

Are you claiming that none of us has integrity in our professional work?

Articles are not written by institutions. They are written by individuals. Just like the code I write every day. For money.

What an absurd argument. Not everyone works at a for profit publicly traded company.

Hmm, not sure I see where that was ever an argument. Regarding what was actually said, if you work for pay, that is typically considered profit.

I believe that ~99% of the people at the NYT care about integrity. But 99% isn't enough.

It’s very unlikely to be 99%.

I would say 99% of them want to be paid.

And that 99%ish of them realize that they need to at least look like they have integrity to be paid.

And if asked, I’m sure 99% of them would admit that the best way to keep getting paid and look like they have integrity is to actually have integrity.

usually where the problems happen is when they can’t see the disconnect between their day to day actions and the long term goal, or when they hit a challenge where they can’t do what they need to do - and then can’t take ownership of what they did and instead hide/project/deny, etc.

I’m guessing less than 90% would really have actual integrity, and the rest should hopefully be kept in check by fear of discovery or whatever. But things slip through regardless.

I'm all for socialism, communism. That's what you're proposing, right?

Otherwise you're saying "can't trust the status quo, can't trust the alternative" - noise, at best.