If you're getting paid to do this you are not a journalist. Can we please stop using the word journalist / journalism when we mean: reporter, hack, whore, propagandist, marketer, etc.?
Media Whore is too specific. Whore is a better fit.
Same applies for other groups and their swept-under-the-carpet problems, I don't really want to bash on Journalists specifically.
GOOD. If you're someone who works earnestly to report affairs objectively and without the influence of money to promote $thing_goes_here, it is absolutely an imperative for you and the integrity of your outlet and profession to call this behavior when it happens.
In any case, that wouldn't be a problem for real journalists. A real journalists asks questions. Lots of questions. Hard questions. And that includes where they gaze into the mataphorical mirror.
In order words, yeah journalism has issues. But we don't need to voluntarily get sucked into that vortex. Just because they don't police thrmselves doesn't me we have to be stupid as well. The headline of this article is wrong. The fact that the author is so mistaken is a very bad sign all around.