I think it's pretty safe to assume that it's not laziness that leads to the distortion of facts in the Commercial Media's articles. Random distortion, as caused by laziness, would be spread both to the right and the left of the actual fact, whereas the Commercial Media always distorts to the right. The intention to misrepresent the facts is obvious, and the resulting bad reporting is one, if not the main pillar of the corporate elite's control over the masses. In a country like the US, where the individual is physically free to do whatever he wants, his mind and will must be controlled, in order to ensure that the freedom will not be used. The mind is controlled by hiding the truth via the Commercial Media, and the will by addicting him to consumerism: satisfying the addiction requires income, and the stronger the addiction, the more the individual's energy is spent on generating that income, leaving less and less for other activities (such as trying to find out what's really happening in the world).