I wonder if they realize they're leaving the other group disinterested in consuming news.

I don't read news anymore. Haven't for years. Initially it was because I found it too depressing, later on I realized that a) almost nothing on the news is meaningful to my life and b) it's mostly full of bullshit designed to grab eyeballs, but recently I realized yet another motivation: I don't read news because of the narrative style. I'd probably read some if I could find a source that actually cared about inverted pyramid, and ideally just made the story a list of bullet points. Having to burn brain cycles to tease out actual facts from someone's storytelling is just a waste of time to me.