There are no conservative dailies anywhere. The Washington Times was closest and it is now web only.
I tend to agree. I’ve traveled across the US and probably read around a hundred different US papers over my life. Seventy percent are slanted left....maybe twenty-five percent are mostly neutral. I’ve come across a few papers in Utah and Florida that I’d regard lightly leaning on the right.
The general problem is that the customer base that would have stood by the papers....are dying off. In today’s atmosphere, it’s going digital and in twenty years....there won’t be a single paper-format newspaper produced in the country. Even the guys who produce the raw paper for the industry know there’s stopping point somewhere in the near future and less thought put into new technology for product.
In some ways, it’s easier today to start a paper from scratch....if you were going to be an entirely digital unit. A guy could have the server in his garage, hire six local college kids, and have five full-time guys walking around the county doing on-the-spot interviews and publishing in seconds, not hours.