Alternatives to the first sentence from "The Missing News" for September 23:

• More notably, the filtering effects of pressure from advertisers was not widely acknowledged in the interviews: only a few journalists intimated otherwise, suggesting that people in news media always have to be concerned about biting the hand that feeds them.
• Something even more worth noticing is that the quiet censorship from advertisers wasn't admitted often in the interviews; not many journalists said otherwise, making us suspect that they always have to be scared of the powerful people who pay their salaries.
• Not many journalists agreed that there was pressure from advertisers, which might make you think that people in news media always have to be concerned about biting the hand that feeds them.
• Because so few interviews contained admissions that advertiser pressure mattered, we concluded that it was because the journalists were scared of losing their salaries.
• Surprisingly, most journalists did not talk about pressure from advertisers to filter content;only a few said otherwise, hinting that they have to be careful not to bite the hand that feeds them.
• No attention was paid in the interview to the pressure fom advertisers to be selective. Some journalists were afraid to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.

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