In terms how one can consider oneself about news, I think this is closer to uninformed than the other way. But that's me.
Unimportant info is filtered, that realy important that somehow affect me get quite quickly. Most conversation about news are irrelevant thus I have more time to do other things.
News are mostly distraction and emotion flow anyway, I'm not sure why consumption is considering as informing. There are plenty other subjects that I consider much more informative.
Then there is publicly accessible news forcibly paid by everyone.
I guess even without ads content without subscriptions would still exist to attract people, however the reality might shift completely if micro payments became a thing (i.e. paying a few cents for every news you view - could be enabled by something like a digital currency like digital euro).
Currently manu are informed by news which attracts many clicks (incentives through ads), which might be considered more disinformation than news.
People might have more money in the bags, because they'd pay less to marketing departments designing and paying for ads.
Lots of things to consider