[funtober]

Imagine a world where Best Buy hired tech reporters to cover tech news and also sold the technology products to their readers.

Or where fashion magazines sell the products they cover on their website rather than advertising.

Why haven't they moved toward this? Journalistic integrity?

[wklauss]

Because that's not journalism. You already have that. They are product catalogues. Even if you somehow manage to keep some kind of integrity in the process, that only covers a fraction of the content that a newspaper / magazine generates. What would be the interest of Best Buy in writing about, say, CISPA if theres no related product they can sell to you?