When I go grocery shopping there is always someone from the Arizona Republic who asks me if I would be interested in taking the paper. I just laugh and then they say "yes, I know"
I remember the old days when Paul Schaat was at the head of the editorial board. The opinion page was actually balanced! That was before the paper was sold to Gannett. Dan Quayle was part of the Pulliam family who owned the paper originally! Keven Willey single-handedly destroyed the paper (well she has had a lot of help from EJ Montini and Richard “I never heard a liberal lie I wouldn’t repeat, especially if it fits the profile about the exploitation of poor Mexicans” Uribe).