The problem with crypto news sites like Cointelegraph and the ICOs are that, most of these ICO owners who are scamming people somehow promotes their project through these sites because, they are somehow connected with them. I am pretty sure these platforms have earned more than enough from all these shady ICOs that have ran away with all their investor's money. Otherwise, Cointelegraph wouldn't be able to operate till now.
If you have a bit of money you can buy a sponsored post on any of those sites.
If you have even more money you can even buy posts on CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and Business Insider, though i do expect them to do a little more fact checking though not an awful lot.