The newspaper business is in free fall. That is why you can hardly count the propaganda tools, NYT and WaPo as newspapers. Two of the world’s richest men saved each of these when they were bleeding subscribers and staff. Billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the WaPo outright for about half of whatAmazon was paid by the CIA to create a cloud for USA intelligence services. Billionaire Carlos Slim of Mexico (tracphone, etc.) bailed out the NYTimes twice.
Carlos Slim also has big business interests with the U.S. government, providing Safelink phones under the Lifeline program (Obamaphones).