Mock? I'd rather get around their paywalls and enforced subscriptions.
Used to be a few proxy sites thta were perfect for this https://outline.com/ was one of them but they probably got too many threats and no longer work on major establishment news sites :(
sometimes just archiving the URL with the article via web.archive.org or archive.today works, sometimes you can stop the page from loading completely and capture the text before the paywall loads, I hate paywalls on good, investigative content so much!