That's a valid perspective, but remember that the quality degraded when we started having paid memberships and ads to websites.
What's a news outlet worth paying for? who actually pays for content online? who knows how to block all ads and didn't do that?
That business model really proved to be worthless, it dragged the quality down with more desperate pay-to-read prompts. Nobody will miss this and we will have again people with real world experience writing knowledge or opinions in their free time. So it goes back to that, quoting scientific papers, books and actual reputable and knowledgeable people writing blog posts.
With the news being mostly propaganda, I don't know what to quote there and how many outlets still have a reputation.
I personally write during my free time in my personal ad-free minimalistic website and have list of blogs I track for contents.
Things changes, waiting for full time "authors" to come up with a profitable plan to just progress is also not an option.