Not only has the paper taken to running leftist columnists like E.J. Dionne, but the reporting is skewed to the left. I cancelled my long-time subscription when they misreported the 2000 Florida recount Supreme Court decision. When I called to complain the managing editor told me that the information on the count of justices came out too late for them to have it accurate. That was a bald-faced lie, and I told him that I had seen the count on Fox News way before the deadline, and if they couldn't turn on a TV they were pretty poor reporters.
We agreed to a Sunday subscription about a year ago because my husband wanted the ads. A couple of weeks ago they started giving us the Thursday paper for free, so we could get the grocery ads. I am certain this was because the groceries pressed them to do so.
Content is skewed in every section of the paper. Local stuff pumps up the incoompetent democrat mayor and ignores much of what Governor Daniels is doing...last week their front page story was on Daniels doing too much too soon. (I guess they wanted him to simply be a place holder or something.) The feature section (formerly women's pages) is skewed to minorities, same-sex couples, family problems, etc. Sports coverage is always full of scandals and griping.
Gannett has turned it into a rotten paper. If I could just buy a subscription to the ads, I would do so.
Betcha if you cancel they'll call you back and offer a big discount to renew.
I cancelled my Boston Globe subscription after they published porno site photos represented as depicting actual rapes of Iraqi women by American forces. They'll be holding the Winter Olympics in Hades before I ever let that rag in my house again. Fortunately, the Boston Herald has the same coupons as the Globe.
I stopped taking that crappy fishwrap back in 1990. They would call on a monthly basis for years trying to get me to take a free subscription until I told them that my phone was unlisted and not to call again. They stopped for several years but just recently started again. I actually enjoy rubbing their demise back in their face.