I hate this line of reasoning so much. It completely ignores how trust works. As an organisation, you cannot simultaneously build a reputation for worthless anti-journalistic click bait, and serious real journalism at the same time. It would be as if Facebook launched some pro-privacy NGO and then people like you went around saying everybody should absolutely take it seriously.
And yet this reasoning works for every newspaper with an editorial/opinion section: The opinion and editorial columns are not held to the same standard as the rest of the paper.
