&gt;<i>He&#x27;s massaging the examples here. Just because NYT is somewhat above the sewers of the Internet doesn&#x27;t make it high-end.</i><p>That&#x27;s beside the point (not to mention that when it comes to perceived quality, the vast majority of people would call NYT high quality, even if they don&#x27;t read it).<p>The point is most will either go to few specific sources or to a few generic aggregators, instead of breaking their surfing across a large distribution of sites (as people did more in mid-nineties).