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CEOs are lauded as visionary and it's just not as engaging to read about crushed visions. Even if we disregard the whole "corporate talking pieces" and "journalists often stem from the social elite" parts, just the drive for engagement and clicks would explain a slant towards writing about great ideas rather than disappointing realism. How many people enjoy SciFi? How many love pedantic analyses why they're absolutely unrealistic?
I mean, I love pedantry (as well as the genre itself), but I'm a minority and fine with it – stories can be fun without being realistic and disbelief can be suspended in favour of entertainment.
CEOs spouting bullshit shouldn't be taken as stories for entertainment though, and much less printed in a serious manner. For them, critical disassembly should be the norm, mandatory even.