Neither are they gonna lose the potential of getting the data of any of their visitors, hence they're in this catch-22.

A burden that's proportional to how much user data you mine, process and/or share with third parties. Hence the irony

> A US based non-profit news organization isn’t going to spend money to pay lawyers to ensure they meet a regulatory burden that doesn’t affect their core demographic.

I like being covered by gdpr. Though I really cannot see any country's gdpr peops taking anyone in the US to court. A very simple "Fuck you" (along the lines of The Pirate Bay) would end any legal conversations. It would be different if the news organisation had an office in the EU. Anyway, i have a vpn, so....