Possibly so.
Left-leaning reporters that are not “clued in” at the highest levels of global finance and espionage are simple unknowing minions of the financial oligarchy.
They don’t realize that the “left” is really a contrivance of the financial oligarchy, which also has assassins at its disposal. If they understood what the “left” is, they’d be cynical enough to come to terms with the fact that the so-called populist or socialist movements they work for are really a complete fake movement, and they are all working to uphold the enslavement of the ignorant masses on behalf of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful elites. If they had such an understanding, they would simply stick to reporting on officially sanctioned stories and help to cover up whenever asked; which is what the leadership of the news media does, which is why they were promoted to leadership positions in the first place.
Most reporters stay “in line” simply because they want their career to progress, but occasionally an ambitious one will think they are “on to something big” and pursue a story that crosses the line of what the “masters” will tolerate.
Not even knowing who the real “masters” are or the full extent of the real organization, the ambitious reporter has no idea of the wider implications of his story and the lengths to which the “masters’” operatives will routinely go to eliminate “problems”. It’s analagous to the reporter being a member of the mafia but not knowing that they are a member, then investigating a story that threatens the “bosses”. They would be “wacked”, but never even really know by who or the full extent of why, because they would not know all the dealings of the “bosses”, ergo, which toes they were really stepping on that brought on the “wacking”.