The Bee's left wing Mother company is McClatchy. The stock symbol is MNI. To back up your words of wisdom re Bias = Layoffs", we can see in the chart below that their stock value is about as bad as the NY Slimes Stock, NYT in the past two years.
MDY is the Mid Cap Index ETF. That is where the NYT and MNI used to be ranked. They may have fallen out of the Mid Cap range with their falling stock value the past two years.
Any conservative, who owns a mutual fund with NYT or MNI stock in the fund is one really stupid sob. They should become liberals, who don't know any better.
Sinking readership and revenue, because of biased and mediocre reporting, is finally taking its toll .