You're right, they don't. But it's not about physical newspapers, it's about journalism itself. Journalism itself is not being funded. This is partly because in

You're right, they don't. But it's not about physical newspapers, it's about journalism itself. Journalism itself is not being funded. This is partly because internet platforms/adtech have broken its financing model. Of course it's possible for the ideologically-minded to counter this by donating to journalism organizations for their public service, without turning to the public sector. But people obviously aren't doing that (enough). The reality is that individuals often don't think in terms of a big enough picture to support abstract public goods with private donations. Capitalism would say "good, people apparently don't want those things, let them die". But "people don't think about it" and "it doesn't have value" are very different things.