As opposed to selling print subscriptions, advertisements both online and in print, and clicks on a "mainstream" news website? Or ads on a Youtube video? There is no material difference on this question of "benefit". News gathering and dissemination is not a non-profit enterprise. They get a benefit.
So many indoctrinated bozos think of the media as their “protectors” rather than understanding the media has been a crass, biased, greedy, and seriously-corrupt industry since approximately Gutenberg.
That faint noise you hear is Mark Twain laughing his arse off.