Journalism should be accessible to everyone. Not many people can afford 30 different subscriptions for every individual news outlet because they’re all pay to read. Remember newspapers? Anyone could buy one on the cheap, now these fuckers have moved to a subscription service that’s even more expensive than the average newspaper used to be.
Not to mention the fact that said real estate is all in extremely expensive locales (Bellevue, WA for starters), so that’s a lot of money they’re blowing on unoccupied buildings.