Right, the whole original point of copyright in the US at all was “to promote the creative arts” - that they were finding that if there wasn’t at least SOME time for people to try to profit off of stuff they wrote/made, there was way way less motivation for people to put in the effort. It’s been twisted a good bit since, but the core idea isn’t nonsense, at all.

Same with real journalism. Don’t see how people expect it to be done for free. For the past several hundred years it’s been normal to pay a modest fee for news.