Is it possible, in a small part, that the news business is booming in the wild post-2016 political era? I imagine that major publications like NYT/WaPo/etc woul

Is it possible, in a small part, that the news business is booming in the wild post-2016 political era? I imagine that major publications like NYT/WaPo/etc would have seen a climb in traffic/subscriptions in the last 1-2 years? Control/agenda is the obvious answer. Rupert Murdoch is immensely powerful in Australia and the US, I guess.