The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created on December 10th, 1948.

Here’s a link related to Article 19 (the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers):

www.unesco.org/en/right-information

And while you do have a point when it comes to pay for the news, i think there’s a clear distinction between paying for a paper newsletter or magazine (and also paying for Cable TV news why not), and having to pay for a small, individual article, no more than 2 pages long. (Because let’s be real, so far there are no news websites worth a paid subscription so far).