For most of the people who are in the news business, they are high functioning psychopaths that love to tell other people what to think/what to believe. They are the ultimate controllers of information flow and have immense power in brainwashing.
They are cold, calculating, and will do anything they can to get ahead or put out information on something.
A good movie that highlights how unethical and fucked up the news business is is that Night Crawler movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(film)
Nightcrawler (film)
Nightcrawler is a 2014 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Dan Gilroy in his feature directorial debut. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom, a stringer who records violent events late at night in Los Angeles and sells the footage to a local television news station. Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, and Bill Paxton also star. A common theme in the film is the symbiotic relationship between unethical journalism and consumer demand.