[stavros]

I think the point is "if you aren't paying, you're getting the cheaper of the two".

[cryptonector]

Not sure that paying would make things better anyways. If everyone was paying then there would be enough revenue for the news to produce the real/biased reporting/agitprop that their customers demand.

[Spivak]

But if you aren't consuming news at all then it doesn't matter and you're free.