Micromanging is not necessary. They just set the tone and don't hire people who would write anything opposed to their policy [1] which they rarely need to explicitly convey, although they do at times of course. People write things that they really like get rewarded.

"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky explains how this work with a very large number of examples.

1. https://youtu.be/9RPKH6BVcoM

2. https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...

> Despite what those propagandists and opinion pieces say, the NY Times, ... do[es] provide quality news (don't read their opinion sections either).

You ever read Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent[1]? If you can't bring yourself to read the book, he made a film about it too [2]. But the book has hundreds of examples (well sourced) of why you should probably rethink that.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwmWnphqII

Beware the filter bubbles: https://youtu.be/B8ofWFx525s

Using scientific unification as a cognitive guide to understand this holistically: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375714499/

Developers! Startups! Cap tables! Unicorns! Disrupt YC and tune it out.