That model works great if you tend to get your news primarily from one news source. If you don't, then that's a lot of subscriptions, and especially if you want to go look at a local news article that got linked somewhere for a town you don't even live in. Most of the time I don't even want to register an account, let alone set up a subscription.

My assumption is that they want the content to load initially so search engines can index it.

Only 3 digits? Send help.

You are being monitored.