Your obsolescence point is dead right. Le Monde used to have good things to read way after the twenty-four hours each issue covered. Now I don't often get the paper version, but if I do I leave it around. And find I don't go back to it.
i.e. their comments and in depth analysis pages have really improved, as their news pages have clearly declined a bit. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Do ou remember the front-page billet by Robert Escarpit? "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
