> whoever gets you that information faster wins
That's just not how it works.
Most people are more interested in accuracy, context, analysis, and trustworthiness.
Sure, papers very occasionally advertise that they were the first to break a story, but this is a minuscule proportion of everything they publish, and it's not the kind of thing that people switch subscriptions over.
If you're a day trader of stocks then speed is king. But for nearly everyone else, it's not the main metric.