This is why the business side and news side of (quality) news papers have been historically kept separate. It also leads to perceived "weirdness" to readers when they see a paper taking money from a corporation to run an advertisement alongside an article critical of said corporation.
This isn't to invalidate your point completely, but to give some insight to those who are not aware of how this conflict of interest has been generally handled.
This isn't to invalidate your point completely, but to give some insight to those who are not aware of how this conflict of interest has been generally handled.