[az_gila]

The Citizen, an afternoon newspaper, operates under a joint operating agreement with the Arizona Daily Star, a morning paper owned by Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises Inc. Print production, distribution, sales and other non-editorial functions for both the Citizen and the Star operate under the name Tucson Newspapers Inc.

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The Arizona Red Star - oops the Arizona Daily Star - is pretty incestuous with the Citizen already. It turned hard left in the last 5-8 years IMO and lost a lot of readers, including me.

[lentulusgracchus]

Funny you mentioned the Ariz. Star's hard left turn -- the Houston Chronicle did the same thing in 1996 when the current editor was recruited from the Albany (NY) Times-Union for the specific purpose of making the Chron a lefty rag (it had been the biz-establishment's favorite fishwrapper previously); and The New York Times did the same thing in 1988 when "Pinchy" Sulzberger took over control from the old man. The NYT had played a lot of social-political stories straight up the middle; well, no more after Pinch got the nod -- hard left rudder! Sailor Pinchy takes a stern approach on gay marriage!

And all that.

I sincerely hope the Houston Chronicle is the next dinosaur medium to go bye-bye; they just raised their newsstand price from 75 cents to $1.00/copy on Monday.

Left-wing overpriced scum.