Paying for modern news is questionable. As an example, when The Athletic launched I decided to start a paid subscription because they promised they would never

Paying for modern news is questionable. As an example, when The Athletic launched I decided to start a paid subscription because they promised they would never put ads in their news content and they would have solid coverage of sports/teams/regional events. After several years they started putting 3-5 ads between paragraphs, shut down a podcast I enjoyed listening to, laid off regional reporters who covered certain teams. And then of course they were acquired by NYT which made things even worse. They then removed the regional chief of the Bay Area in the last year. Does paying full price guarantee anything these days? It's not like you can guarantee any news network won't let subjectivity slip into their content, there will always be some bias and coverage based on either the writers or editors or top level business. At that point I'd rather just use ad blockers as best as I can.