“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
1) Magazines, etc demand writers use New Journalism which in my mind is largely masturbatory anyway for the writer. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Journalism )
2) A buddy of mind is a journalist who writes a lot of what offends you across numerous sites/publications. I have constantly berated him for never giving anything a bad review. He deflects with, "Well there is so much good stuff out there, there is no reason for me to spend my time on the bad stuff." That is code for, "If I write a bad review, the studio/record label/management company will pull my access to their talent and then I won't have a job because I won't have any celebrities that people want to read about to write about; I won't be getting free trips to do interviews; and people will stop flooding me with free screeners to watch and CD's to listen to."