A better option for hotels, that might even help their bottom line while improving their business atmosphere, is already being done to some extent in high volume medical waiting rooms.
It is a wide screen TV with a looping morning news and information program and live feed on it. Those I’ve seen use the Reuters news feed.
Thus, the hotel chain could set up a small TV studio to record its chain wide broadcasts, then torrent them to all their franchises late at night for the next day.
The idea would be to encourage people to leave their rooms and come to the hotels lounge and restaurant for breakfast, yet get higher quality news than they could get on their room television.
The chain might even hire a news web-surfer to find news not carried by the news wires or major news sources, then plug in a headline and a web link.
Yeah, all that, or people could just use the wireless internet in their rooms if they were that worried about news.