Oh, absolutely. I can't remember which magazine I was just reading about wrt this (It might have been Slate? Or Salon? So an online mag, but it's still illustrative) where they basically flat-out said that the owner kept it running to push his social agenda even though it wasn't profitable. The irony, of course, is that they wouldn't all BE failing if they weren't so fixated on lecturing people instead of providing news/entertainment...but the lower their numbers fall the more they double down on pushing their bullshit--the bullshit whose consequences they never have to deal with, of course--on normal people and calling us all names. These assholes would literally rather lose money than stop sneering at others.