They aren't actually banning the videos, despite eye catching headlines. They're saying that the videos, if monetized, make the drone flying a commercial activity, which is banned.
"Drones taking monetized videos are commercial flights, according to FAA"
See FAA
Is anyone familiar with the concept of a revolving door? The FAA isn't magically immune to this process and is in fact a good case study of the phenomenon.
But continue to downvote comments not because they aren't true but because they challenge your mistakenly held beliefs.
Strange, I didn't know there was any non-commercial component to the first amendment. How did newpapers and newcasts, which are also commercial activities, escape such issues?
The act of flying a plane becomes retroactively illegal because money was made from a video? Can we be adults and admit this has nothing to do with lawfulness and everything to do with money?
Unless your newspaper is delivering its newspapers by drones, they would not run into this issue.