“With the expansion of the internet people are choosing news and facts over propaganda.”
Yes, their operating model doesn’t fare well in the Internet age, where even control of most Internet news has alternatives one click away for the general public.
As these papers like NYT and WaPo start finally dying the painful death they deserve the fitting outcome is not for them to just gracefully disappear, but for their editors and new manufacturers to be scorned, humiliated and shunned in the process.