Kraken brokers apply fees.
It's not like you can run such things as exchange websites without needing to finance it.

Though indeed yes, it's really high. Doesn't seem to correlate with Kraken claimed fees schedule by the way, it's probably made to make people maintain their Bitcoins on their platform.

Wow.

There is no reason to "believe" the news strictly talking. There is not a single journal or website out there that isn't biased, some are more than others though.

If you wish for objective news, or at least to maximize the objectivity of your interpretation, the best is still to gather information from multiple, clearly differentiated news. Of course they must all be reliable (in the sense than The Guardian is reliable, relatively to, let's say a random conspiracy theory website).
Also "free" news is cancer.

The only way nowadays to get efficient and relevant news is to pay to access a journal's website, for example.

Cryptocompare.com lets you used tools common in the industry, from what I've seen.

But if you have no knowledge of financial markets it may be hard to get how to correctly interpret them.