I agree with what you're saying. But I wasn't suggesting having algorithms pick our news items; agree with what you say about reinforcing biases. I'm suggesting

I agree with what you're saying. But I wasn't suggesting having algorithms pick our news items; agree with what you say about reinforcing biases. I'm suggesting that in the modern era, with adults who have grown up with the internet, it doesn't make sense to ask them to pick one source and pay a monthly subscription for it; we are used to an enormous range of quality reading options. Instead I'm imagining a middleman/broker site where one can see story headlines from a large selection of newspapers and pay to read on a per-story basis or via subscription (e.g. a monthly balance but still the newspaper whose story you click on is the one that gets the micropayment). People would happily pay $20 a month or whatever to read $their_desired_monthly_number_of_words of intelligent journalism if they can choose the range of sources from which those words come. But very few will pay 4 x $20 for 4 sources. (replace $20 with whatever's right).