What conflicts of interest? Big companies? The nations they are based in? None of that stopped, for example, the story about Volkswagen's Diesel fraud, or Boeing's troubles with the 757-MAX from finding a lot reputable publishers willing to print the story.
Conflicts on trying to appear politically neutral for PR pieces while 1) they are not (because research funding sources, public relationships etc), 2) it is not possible, so better off avoiding certain topics all together.
I still have faith in preprint servers though. Or self-publishing in the scientific writing form, instead of unorganized blog rant.
