[SecurityMinded]

News is public knowledge. What you pay is the opinions of the news reporters. I personally have no interest in paying for politically skewed opinions of a pol-sci grad of few years ago. That is why I will never ever subscribe or read any newspaper in print or online. When I acidentally click on a link which takes me to NY Times or LA times or Atlantic titled website, I immediately close it without even perusing the first few lines of content, because I know it will be a political writing, not objective news.

[vulcan01]

Public knowledge must be compiled, and that requires some amount of work. Whether this work needs to be paid for is up to you.

Further, many news agencies conduct investigations. Perhaps the most well-known of these are the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. By paying for news you also pay to fund their investigations, which may or may not result in newsworthy information.

[egonschiele]

WHAT are you talking about? What makes news public knowledge over anything else? I take it you don't pay doctors or engineers either, because their knowledge is public knowledge too?