Understandable, but I guess I was framing it in terms of "the way it used to be". Picking up a paper and reading yesterday's news was the method of delivery for

Understandable, but I guess I was framing it in terms of "the way it used to be". Picking up a paper and reading yesterday's news was the method of delivery for years. If the shift is to put the best news behind a paywall, it seems preferable to read "real" news on paper than fake news. But to answer your direct question, no, they cannot. Our local paper is fairly stubborn about its monitization (refusing to digitize back issues in major library databases such as Proquest), so I'm not optimistic.