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I'm not asking a question, because I am actually a journalist, I've studied in a litterrature, then media school before getting in marketing and propaganda.
So I know for a FACT that journalism is not a job for reporting or informing people but very well influence and manipulate them:

My question is to take the temperature, to know how many people are aware of the the extent and reasons of the manipulation.

Especially since the bias in video game journalism but also review sites has become obvious.

What do you think about the obviously most biased medias like Kotaku or Polygon (which are owned by a parent company behind Gawker and Vox Media), their technique of manipulation and their goals?

Here is for exemple a Gaf thread reporting about Microsoft financing Polygon up to 750,000$... http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=487897