[jbob2000]

This analogy doesn't work because information is not a limited commodity. Once you've "printed" the news, its value drops to 0. This isn't the old days where you had to physically print 1,000,000 papers if you wanted the message to get to 1,000,000 people. You can "print" the news once now, and EVERYONE can see it.

[jedberg]

No analogy is perfect. :)

But even still, it costs them money to research and write the news. Distribution is free but creation is not.