Journalists don't need to eat though. They can be replaced by fully automated open source and free AI news agent self loops run by volunteer computation resources.

If they're going to exploit our attention and refused implement free and open source newsagents on their own, but instead extort us for subscriptions and steal our attention with unwanted ads, then we have no choice but to displace them with our own free and liberated solutions to the news problem.

Their time is marked.