Only unintentionally. I meant that they were king of print, and have been completely usurped by a new mechanism for controlling content consumption by users.
I don't buy for a moment that Facebook users are choosing a lot of the content they see.
The Wall Street Journal has had a larger national subscription base for years.
And of course there were many dominant local city papers in the days before digital. I used to read the Chicago Tribune cover to cover every day. Before that I read the Atlanta Journal.
I don't buy for a moment that Facebook users are choosing a lot of the content they see.