Newspapers and media in general don't get read for their factual information, they get read/consumed for how they make you feel. This is excellent stuff - it makes rich people feel superior, poor people feel bad and people in the middle feel uneasy. Everyone gets an emotion from one headline, effective click generator this one!
Whether or not it's good for society longterm to have journalists publish 'your neighbour makes more money than you, your neighbour is better looking than you, your neighbour is smarter than you' is another matter. I think we all know the answer, and yet there isn't some benevolent billionaire who cares enough to fund his/her own media organization and ban this type of content on their platform.
Does it really matter if we instinctively attach a positive or negative bias to a piece of information?