The stockholders at these creaky old papers need to raise hell. Newspapers are a tough enough sell in these days of illiteracy without the editorial staff making it even harder by embracing a worn-out, discredited ideology. Publishers need to hold their senior editors to account, and those editors need to reinstate the time-tested values of objectivity, detachment, and "news you can use" instead of "news that uses you."
No doubt some of the shareholders are doing just that. They're selling, as evidenced by the decline of the stock price.
And just think of the damage being done to the employee's 401k accounts.
I really feel sorry for them. Really, I do...