You could also ask: What's wrong with news and political information geared towards your political opinions?
- news isn't targeted at a particular person (unless you're using your own RSS aggregator, but then you're not (usually) giving anyone else information about what you're aggregating).
- news is generally opt-in, meaning that I choose to read bbc instead of NYTimes
So I agree with your two points. In fact you can easily use interest profiles for serving advertising and news alike, my comparison is apt.