If you really want to buy the SPH rags, buy them from your neighbourhood auntie/uncle sitting at a busy junction, near a mall etc. They need your business.
I know people who buy Wanbao just to look at the 4D/Toto results, and maybe check on the updates of some huge breaking news or scandal.
Are the SPH machines new? The 'fake news' moniker hadn't entered mainstream consciousness until after Trump had used it on Jim Acosta in late 2016. Ng Yat Chung became SPH CEO in September 2017.
The vending machines were either installed in the 8-9 months under the previous SPH CEO, or during Ng Yat Chung's tenure as CEO.