Mr. Harry Browne:

It is a kind of virtuous circle. In the fields of fashion, property and certain aspects of business coverage, there is a kind of routine, low-level bestowal of gifts.

There is a famous quote about journalism which I can never remember precisely, to the effect of why would one bother bribing a journalist when one sees how easy it is to get them to write exactly what one wants for free. That characterises the relationship between business interests and journalists much more clearly for me than any notion that there is a sort of corruption even at a low level.