I don't understand why high quality journalism should be free. Free journalism needs to pay for itself, which results mostly in click-bating. I'm sure HN has a

I don't understand why high quality journalism should be free. Free journalism needs to pay for itself, which results mostly in click-bating. I'm sure HN has a large segment of relatively affluent people who are at least curious about high quality content available. And usually some helpful soul has archived the result, and papers with doi are trivial to find from sci-hub (bless her!).