I have 1080 vertical pixels and I probably know the page title from the link I clicked to get here. Why do you insist on hiding my content at least 1081 pixels down?
I used to build Web 1.0 websites with elaborate headers and jampacked sidebars and they still let you see the meat of the page on the first screen.
P.S. Welcome to some of my open tabs
For some reason, news sites are inexcusably bad at this. Maybe they're just stretching out after a couple centuries of counting everything in column-inches.
Basically every bad feature of the modern web can be traced back to ad revenue. Revenue is partly determined by how long people spend on a page (dwell time). By forcing you to scroll before you can actually read anything, they're inflating dwell time.