A hell of a lot of news draws on papers in journals and other science publications, most of which are behind pay-per-view firewalls.

Even if I cough up for the paper, I'm restricted ethically, if not legally, in what I can reproduce. So essentially, everything we see in the media on these things has already been "cherry-picked," and we only hear complaints when the cherry-picking is not politically correct.

I fully support the right of these journals to ask for payment for these things, but would it kill them to take the one or two papers that have become major news items and put them out into the public? At least after a period of time?