Comment by arjie

It's clear that people place some non-zero value on archival content. It should be unsurprising that news outlets also place some non-zero value on it. Given that they place some non-zero value on it, it is unsurprising that they do not give it away for zero. Disagreeing with their estimation of the value is understandable, but surely it's easy to see why most news outlets do what they do.