Facts are uninteresting. Our highly empirical world produces more facts by the minute, and people get a natural resistance. You can line up 10 facts and maybe indicate some truth. Viewers can come up with 10 different fact (a fact for them at least) against this. It is the narrative that forms opinions. Single impactful facts can move public opinion, but to produce those you don't need some big conglomerate with hundreds of employees.

> They are not trying to tell people what to think, or even what the reporter thinks.

There is increasingly small amount of venues with this kind of attitude (regional TV or some EU state media comes to mind) and besides this never being really true (what is report-worthy?) it's so mind numbingly boring that no wonder it's dying out. In a world where people can customize content 100% to their preference it is a naive concept.