I get the impression that newspapers were your first love, but now they're more like the annoying ex-spouse who manages to stick the knife in and twist at every opportunity. That's nicely phrased. As far as I'm concerned, newspapers have largely died. I grew up expecting to work in a profession that pretty much no longer exists. I would have been better off in my dad's era, or earlier.
Newspapers have, for the most part, become demographically designed, graphics-heavy product.
Their content is largely created to satisfy demographers, not readers. That's a big difference. You don't need a demographer to know what people want to read. People want to read something . . . An editor would become an editor, in part, because he or she had a good sense of what made for a good story.