I am appalled at the distain for the NYT I see posted here. Clearly you've never looked past clicking on the headlines to see the in depth articles, comprehensive analysis on politics, history, the arts, science, technology, even cooking.
If your looking for a reason for this maybe it's apple charging 30 percent of the subscription price to provide none of the cost of supporting the research, correspondence, and enormous costs of one of the last real full service news organizations.
They do the same with audible subscriptions. They also charged 30 percent of the cost of a book to provide a link to buy it. Audible no profit juggernaut would have had to raise the price of the books to support listing it there so as a consequence you have to buy the books on the web and then go to the app to download them.
Nobody has been more committed to the apple "sphere" than I have since the early 80s but where things like parts, repairs, and especially the App Store they've always been a greedy bully