Lake needs to understand, as she certainly should by now, that she represents her employer, a very visible one no less, and she is a journalist - at least that is her billing. Journalists should report the news, not make it or influence it. She clearly did both.
She needs to keep her personal opinions to herself as long as she is in this job just as (I think) Rick D'Amico did (and he wasn't billed as a journalist).
And BTW, the article linked has one significant statement wrong. Lake is quoted as using the F word in reference to the NY Times. Then in the subsequent paragraph she goes off again but that statement was directed at the Phoenix New Times (which wasn't referenced) and not the NY Times.