Used to subscribe to the NY Times when I lived on the East Coast. The Sunday edition arrived with a big thud - and a whole lot more to it than the editorial section.
The paper has won over a hundred Pulitzer prizes, for things like it's international reporting. You know, where you hire a reporter to go into dangerous places and actually report what's happening. Or where they spend thousands of hours trying to find some real story of corruption -- or excellence. Big difference between that and sitting behind a desk in a radio studio and blowing hard into the mic or sitting at a keyboard and making up stuff; whether left or right slanted.
Free press has always been a big part of our democracy (Ben Franklin, a printer); and crucial for example in the "robber baron" days. Just as crucial today. Not sure we should be so eager to dis' or dismiss it. As for the mechanics of printing presses -- pretty ingenious, if destined for the Smithsonian.