Of course news sites know how to create fast, easy-to-read websites. There is no point in complaining about poor usability and bloated websites, because it's just a symptom of a decease. The internet in its current state is ill-equipped for making good journalism a sustainable business. Google and other search engines are a direct threat to good quality news media. The search engines took the lion's share of advertisement revenue from news media and made them starve of cash. They encourage click-baity headlines and shallow articles, do not protect or poorly protect from stealing/copying content. This is the real problem.

Bloated websites are horrible, but they are a symptom, not a decease. There is not point in complaining about symptoms.

The comparison with newspapers is good. This is what news websites would have looked like if the decease had been cured.