Not all news is free on the internet. Also if you really lived newspapers those had a cost too - unless you read those ridiculous circulars for rentals.I'm so old school, that I mourn the loss of news papers. But even I can see the reality of the way the world turns these days. If you have the internet, news is free. And anything newsworthy behind a paywall, is outside of said paywall within a matter of seconds.
Back in the day the newspaper stand was your paywall. So I think you’re talking rubbish here. Many of he old GOOD newspapers are still in circulation. Not in the same numbers but man the amount of trees chopped for the majority of newspapers never read was obscene.