That doesn't mean we should continue perpetuating such biases when it's avoidable. It annoys me greatly when politicians use this line of reasoning. If what we had before was working we wouldn't need to change it.
I don't think creating a surveillance dystopia that gives corporations and potentially evil governments enormous powers over the population is quite the right price to pay for free news.
I believe that it would be great if free news is available to everyone, but there are alternate ways of achieving it. For instance, in a microtransaction system giving poor people a reasonable sum to spend every month.
