This would make accusations of potential conflicts of interest, or lobbying, which can be impossible to either corroborate or refute (given their often unattributed and/or unverified nature) less likely.
Highlighted items may include extensively unattributed passages provide by the subject of the article and readers should treat such feature and benefit claims accordingly.
The origins of some of the traditional crosstalk pieces still being performed today can be traced back well over 100 years, although in many cases the original author is unattributed.