What's there now? Among other things, there's a cartoon image of a man saying "It's locked." A picture of Keira Knightley, with an atheism/theism quote. A dog catching a piece of cheese. A picture of two shirtless guys jumping around in a hotel room. The top link points to an article with content that does actually seem to be corrupted by corporate manipulation (it could be read as an advert for Lockheed-Martin). However, the article itself is on Reuters, so Reddit is just acting as a low-quality aggregator site at that point.
In short, it's hard for me to take the front page of Reddit seriously as a "media" outlet. While I do find some subreddits interesting and informative, it's not clear how the quality of the front page would somehow get dragged down by a few professionally-produced marketing messages.