Who says that paying for journalism would fix this problem? Both CNN and FOX are cable news, not broadcast for free.
Go back to the start of the Second Gulf war and you had the NYT and other media outlets complicit in the WMD lies.
Go back to the start of the Second Gulf war and you had the NYT and other media outlets complicit in the WMD lies.
Neither CNN nor Fox is quality journalism, "quality" being the adjective you left out.
The NYT also issued an apology for their coverage about WMD which was not rigorously fact checked. One of the reporters, Judith Miller, later joined Fox News.
Quality doesn't mean 100% correct all the time, it means significantly better than the alternative.
Comparing the coverage of different sources is part of how you can reach your own conclusions, instead of blindly adopting whatever opinion is broadcasted to you.