A. Newspapers really don't seem to have much valuable information. Public sources easily cover the daily news (BBC, CBC, Wikipedia etc). 
B. Financial news and possibly entertainment (cable television packages through the net) are the only areas where I see possible growth via prescription fee model. Perhaps we'll also get better television. 
C. Wikipedia beat all the prescription models that were there before it, and the gap is only getting bigger. In mathematics, for the most part I find using wikipedia more helpful than Wolfram MathWorld. Encyclopedia Britannica has been bitchslapped in all other regards. Really the only way to compete with wikipedia is if you made the vast majority of journals available through a portal coupled with an encyclopedia for referencing. However, the cost for such thing would be astronomical.