Many years ago, at the end of an interview for Frontline regarding 60 Minutes and self-censorship, Lowell Bergman stated, “It’s always difficult with any publication or broadcaster to take on a subject or an institution that is as big as you are, or bigger, that has some commercial link, especially to your organization.  It’s always difficult… .  What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast anything about the government.  There’s very few restrictions in that way.  It’s not true when we’re talking about private power, especially major Fortune 500 corporations, or people worth more than, say, a billion dollars.” The interviewer responded, “What a thing to say.  You can take down the President of the United States…”  And to end the interview, Bergman cut him short by saying, “But don’t screw with General Electric.”

 

That's also why Bergman didn't screw with the multibillion-dollar Corporation of The Regents of the University of California.  Instead, he screwed University of California students—in exchange for a long and distinguished career at the UC Berkeley Journalism School ("J-School" for members of that insiders club).