With the development of the Internet into a multi-access point news source for a wide variety of voices and data sources, it seems that newspapers have become nearly (i) _Obsolete_ {talking about wide variety hence hinting us about some numbers hence obsolete and not bombastic or capricious}.
it is surprising that, nonetheless, subscriptions to certain major flágship papers, and even some hometown journals, have (ii) _proliferated_ in the last few years. {since he surprised means something opposite must have occurred so the numbers must have increased, metamorphosed and reeled does not fit into the context at all.}