It is a bit lazy to blame the consumer for the lack of quality. Kind of a light version of how consumption but not production is blamed for the climate disaster.

Spending your own money on quality news papers is not the only way to support good journalism. You could also ask your national government to spend more tax money towards your national media company (if you have one) or towards subsidizing independent ones. Or you could champion pro-consumer legislation which might prevent ad monopolies like google from swallowing most of the ad revenue.

Asking consumers to spend their money correctly is probably the least effective way of increasing the quality of production.