Unlike with reporting, there is no news agency or government to edit or censor what a war artist portrays, and they will be uniquely placed to produce images that transcend propaganda.
While it might be argued that Fannie and Freddie and insured banks were profit-seekers because they were shareholder-owned, what can explain the fact that the FHA a government agency was guaranteeing the same bad mortgages that the unregulated mortgage brokers were supposedly creating through predatory lending?