The idea that a journalist at the WSJ or NYT is in any way influenced by your nebulous "necessities of survival" (the advertisers, I'm guessing?) is simplistic and false. Most of them would actually love to be asked just so they could never stop telling the story how they threw that manager out of their office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azjb_85xrO8 is an excellent documentary on the process.