media - Journalists advise on corporate governance

Should journalists advice banks and other financial institutions on corporate governance? Ethical issues emerge very frequent in the fast-changing Chinese media market and today was such a day. While browsing through the today released IIF report on corporate governance in China, I discovered the names of two colleagues who work for some of the most respected financial media: managing editor Hu Shuli of Caijing and Annie Zhang of the International Finance News. Journalists should write in their publications about corporate governance, I feel, they should not be part of the backroom deliberations themselves. Or am I too strict now?