I once had a subscription back in the 90's (free with something... I can't remember). The very 1st issue had a TV review. The TV in question was a certain RCA model; a model well known by our industry to be a steaming pile of crap! I mean it was head & shoulders above (meaning below) and other thing on the market at that time. It was an incredibly bad TV - performance, reliability, and design. Here is was in Consumer Reports, getting a glowing review (best out there). After a couple of issues and seeing the same crap over & over... talking to some other professionals in other fields about what they have seen in Consumer Reports, it was all to obvious what was going on.
Nothing I've seen has seem to change over the years decades.

Either that or believe that every single person that works at Consumer Reports, rode the short bus as a child. Which is more likely?
And either way means the same thing as far as their content goes.