The website for the leading NJ newspaper (the Star-Ledger’s nj.com) shut down comments early in 2020 in anticipation of ending any pro-Trump postings; now they are looking for subscribers and restricting select stories to subscribers. Nobody is going to pay for it.
A smaller outlet’s website (the Bergen Record’s northjersey.com) is subscriber only to read any stories, but simply entering a headline in your browser usually will bring up a free version of it somewhere. Again, nobody is going to pay for this; there is little worthwhile content, and these outlets have long been the very definition of bias and propaganda.
I thought NJ.com shut down their reader comments because they were embarrassed to see how much better the comments were than the original articles. :-P