There's a difference between getting paid for what you didn't make (land) or for what you did make (journalism).
It is when you try to move into a building that someone wants rent. Just like when you want to benefit from someone’s work to convert mere facts into a story.
You can also take facts from paywalls article and use them to write a story, same thing.
But that's the minority anyway, those who were born into rent extracting elites need to not lift a finger.
Land is not result of anyone's work.