Reply #4: It means no such thing [View All]

[Oeditpus Rex]

Blaming the public would be absurd. Newspaper publishers and upper-level editors poll, survey and otherwise gauge their paper's readership in an effort to achieve some editorial balance — which usually isn't "balance" at all, but skewed compromise. The degree of skew usually depends on the aforementioned suits' personal opinions.

More so than readers, though, publishers and upper-level editors are afraid of offending advertisers, since they pay the bills.

There's no conspiracy here.