I understand this sentiment but it's extremely short sighted. Paying for news is about incentives. Much like Google having poor incentives to provide good unbiased search functionality based on the fact that their revenue comes from advertising, news work poorly aligns with advertising incentives also.

Whether you contribute to that or not is your choice.

My mother has worked in local journalism for half a century - mostly radio, but some newspaper and the very occasional TV appearance. If they're making a lot of money, she sure isn't seeing it. Maybe whatever private equity company that owns the station this year is doing well, but they're not known for sharing with the other boys and girls so to speak. It's a shame because from what I can tell, she was a very good reporter but the role is reduced to a shadow of what it was when I was a kid. Obviously they're now talking about replacing her with AI, and she's about ready for a severance check I think.

I was a subscriber to wired magazine for over 10 years, but they kept reducing the articles and increasing the advertisements, to the point where 80% of the magazine was just advertisements.

Yeah, I really liked Blendle for this but they recently shut down US operations for some reason.