[wagglebee]

Over the years, the paper's editorials have taken a reliably Democratic or liberal view of issues, positions some worried would change under Lee's ownership, according to the newspaper trade journal Editor & Publisher.

I don't really care about liberalism on the editorial page, it's the leftist editorializing in reporting of actual news that pisses me off.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

The founder of the Sacramento Bee, part of the McClatchy chain, included in the codicil of his will a requirement that the newspaper remain committed in perpetuity to the promotion of "public ownership of private property."

Well, isn't that special....

[Brilliant]

Can't change the name to the St. Louis Democrat?

[TravisABQ]

Is this any more enforcable than a codicil never to sell
a house to people of the "wrong" race?

--Travis--

[Tacis]

It, basically, is the same promise that our old-timey, extremist progressive, dying media made to the Soviet Kremlin before it fell.

[Rane _H]

"..never be satisfied with merely printing news.."

That right there would raise my eyebrow. What a noble mission.