The thing is that it's not a dream job to them and not because they want to mandate things. Oppressinator hit the head on the head above.

Imagine being a journalist and going to school for years, being in debt from it and being introduced at parties and to family members as they guy who has to write about Pokemon vidya. Someone once brought up the point to me once that really made sense is that the reason why these journalists hate their audience so much is because they hate themselves most of all.