Wonder how much it truly costs to store 50,000+ news papers. It's not all digital yet and someone had to find what you are looking for. Media in its current form is expensive, And if you want "breaking" news everywhere you will pay for it in some way. Not everyone can/will work for little money for long. I love the idea of every citizen with a camera, but there is still a back end to all of it. Look at twitter and facebook, great sources of information but they can not sustains themselves in the current model.
on the other hand, I would love to see the big three start to charge.