Their entire business isn't journalism. Their entire business, in fact, is mostly entertainment. You've got a journalistic piece in a very different milieu. It was awful. Newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times supply some of the needs of American democratic culture with their continuous commitment to credible and reliable deliverance of the news.
Responsible citizens can only act responsibly with responsible news.
If the economic bottom line is the mark by which a news organization ultimately judges itself, and entertainment, in the form of giving the public what it wants, raises the bottom line, then the fate of large conglomerates, to be fair to their shareholders and owners, tilts more toward their entertainment goals than toward journalism. Therefore, the economic system isn't the driver. The economics aren't the critical factor here. These different media are fulfilling the different needs of Americans in different ways. Assuming that a fair look at accurate information is beneficial to American political values, print journalism will be able to reconcile its practical profit motivations with its ideal ethical responsibilities to provide accurate information to the American electorate.