Spot on. As a journalist who has worked on the internet, we're always told to be aware, generally speaking, to keep internet articles fairly short – because the process of scrolling etc means that it really is not as easy to read lengthy pieces on screen as on the written page.
To an extent, that's why you're seeing a bit of a sea change in the content of newspapers (and, like you, I'm talking UK here). There's an increasing amount of features and analysis in the broadsheets these days – because 24/7 news coverage, on TV and internet, means that many people are saturated with the basic news. Therefore, papers have to provide something different.
