American Journalism should have never been a for-profit venture to begin with.
A for-profit company by its very nature must pursue profit above other priorities, namely the truth. A for-profit journalist therefore has an obligation to lean into hype and fear mongering to get viewers and audience rather than telling the truth, boring or as offensive as it may be to the majority.
There has always been non-profit news, and non-profit news has been the only place you could find any shred of journalist integrity for many years now.