In a blog on AZ Central, Laurie Roberts writes about the possible resurrection of payday loans. It’s a conscending article, but it did not stop the newspaper from advertising payday loan keywords in the text of the article.
“…payday loans and their 400% interest rate…”
This comes down to the perception. The newspaper will advertise payday loans b/c it means revenue, but they love to bash payday loans b/c that’s what people want to hear. The general public does not want to stick up for an industry that’s making money. Even Google gets harassed by consumer groups and they give everything away for free.