It's the nature of news. Journalists are employed by organisations and are expected to deliver articles that reflect the stance of the paper/company etc. I don't think that they are an extension of the Government per say but rather an expression of a system. Even within papers there are often wildcards with interesting things to say, but if you think that a lot of alternative news media do not also have their own agenda, and an expected stance to start from when communicating to their subscribers, then you are mistaken. In fact many times alternative media will not tolerate deviation from the assumed narrative, and is nothing more than a huge commercialism of peoples gullibility and fears. Alex Jones and Infowars is a prime example of wearing bigger blinkers than the mainstream Shire Horses.

You can buy pasties anywhere, but then again you never know what gets put in them. Your Nan at least never charged you for the privilege of losing a tooth to her concrete shortcrust pastry.