Late add for clarity, on last 'graph: Free papers might be either for-profit (ad-supported) or not-for-profit (propaganda). Ultimately there's a rather blurry

Late add for clarity, on last 'graph: Free papers might be either for-profit (ad-supported) or not-for-profit (propaganda). Ultimately there's a rather blurry line between advertising and propaganda: both are messaging modes in which the publisher is more interested in distribution than the reader.