The thing is that news has an utilitarian function : we should be able to debate what is going in the world around us. What’s going on in the world is another word for news.
News should be free in a way.
I agree that news/journalism should be accessible to everyone.
But piracy of paywalled content just provides a relief valve for whatever demand there is for accessibility, and keeps the 'news' a property of parties like Rupert Murdoch (in the case of WSJ).
Spoken on a popular site that routinely uses pirate mirrors to circumvent news site paywalls. :)