I fear Dave conflates the publishing side with the editorial operations themselves, which is easy to do when you're reasonably cynical about the whole industry itself. The publisher of a newspaper or magazine, whether they own it or are the employee of a larger media concern, is focused on the financial and structural issues of a publication. Publishers are almost certainly threatened by chthonic endeavors. Their livelihoods might change substantially as power structures are modified. The editorial operation, however, is likely to remain similar.
Editors have a necessary function in the stream of things.
I definitely see a world in which you have virtual publication assembled from individual writers who band together under a revenue-sharing flag, relying on editors who they appoint themselves or agree to work with, who handle the structural issues and supervision of virtual operations. As a freelancer, I'm already a little in that boat. I have to carefully balance what I write about and say to avoid biting the various hands that fund the Unsolicited Pundit media empire of one. Dave views this kind of selective omission as a lack of integrity, in my interpretation of his view. Dave asserts a lack of integrity by those who are employed to write because he views reporters as in thrall to those who pay the bills.