It's your browser and the way the newspaper formats their site. Open the same site with SuperBird, or Safari and it will read fine. The latest versions of IE, Firefox, and Chrome see the text as greyed out.
I discovered a little problem with IE, and Mozilla, that doesn't seem to be inherited by the other browsers (Chrome, Safari, PaleMoon, SuperBird). If you have a non-TrueType version of Helvetica, or Times fonts installed (and possibly others) then web pages designed to call Helvetica or Times through their CSS code will fail. This problem used to be a Type 1 font issue, but it has now become an OpenType and Raster issue as well.
If you have not installed any fonts to Windows then you should not have this problem.