That would be fair enough but also wouldn't give the publishers what they want, because Google doesn't show ads in their News app or in Google News on the web:

That would be fair enough but also wouldn't give the publishers what they want, because Google doesn't show ads in their News app or in Google News on the web: https://news.google.com https://news.google.com I just opened it on a browser with no ad blocker and scrolled to the bottom. There are no ads in there. It's all news.