Here's where news-media failed in their transition to the web: they failed utterly to embrace the nature of the web — links. Anytime a news article has links, they are, without fail, internal links to the site's own articles, writeups or descriptions. They use links solely to drive traffic to their own pages. So you'll never see a link out to the source site, or even to Wikipedia.
An example: I'm looking at a (really good!) article about the first images coming from the Vera Rubin telescope. And the pictures are just gorgeous. Jaw droppingly awesome. But nary a link to the telescope's own website.
There's a link with the text, "Vera C. Rubin Telescope" to, presumably, a description or more detail about the telescope; it's a link to the site's own article about the telescope, where I'd expect or want to see something from the telescope project itself. How disappointing. So I didn't bother to click it and find out. I'd have clicked on a link to the telescope project's website or a Wikipedia article, or even some rando fan's blogpost. Internal link? Can't be arsed.
No wonder the web hates news sites. No wonder they're so deeply implicated in the scam that is Search Engine Optimisation (soon to be cannibalised by Large Lying Machines that swallow the content and don't even direct readers to the original material). The news industry brought this on themselves by buying in to the advertising/clickbait/eyeballs game without consideration or thought for the nature of the medium they were engaging.
The same goes for journalists you see on "social media". They're not there for a conversation; they're not there to engage other people. They're only, ever there to post links and drive traffic to stuff they wrote. No consideration or thought for the nature of the medium. They're after all the advantage and none of the rules of engagement, none of the responsibility for taking care of and growing the commons.
The news sites deserve to die. They've brought it on themselves.