Public knowledge must be compiled, and that requires some amount of work. Whether this work needs to be paid for is up to you. Further, many news agencies cond

Public knowledge must be compiled, and that requires some amount of work. Whether this work needs to be paid for is up to you. Further, many news agencies conduct investigations. Perhaps the most well-known of these are the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. By paying for news you also pay to fund their investigations, which may or may not result in newsworthy information.