Oh man that's awful, I saw so many of the pages I started learning from on that list! What I'm surprised about was the "Get involved, you live here" page being unpublished. That page didn't get into the same material per-se that others did, at least the last time I remember looking at it.
The dinosaurs at these media companies are just trying to stay on the trend of relevance. I believe that revolutionary technologies like blockchain media here on Steemit are already changing the game entirely. None of those people can control the content on here. Some can come in and drop a boat load of money and downvote people, sure, but it would only be a matter of time before the community would downvote them and ruin their account value. Power of the people!
I think that we are on the precipice of a new information revolution; Wikileaks information and leaks being stored here on the blockchain for permanent record is just the beginning. While I certainly feel for the people affected, it only helps us in the long-run by removing people from that platform because of censorship, it also ruins their reputation in the eyes of people who are looking for increasing freedom of speech and expression not increased censorship.