From what I understand that is the way it used to be years ago. Usually two papers in each town - One Democrat leaning, one Repbulican leaning. That way citizens could read both and figure out which one was telling the truth. Nowadays you have newpaper agencies like Gannet, McClatchy, etc... that have taken over these smaller papers, and usually there is only one paper in a given area (like the one I live in).
It gets even worse when you still have the APPEARANCE of two separate papers - like in Denver. The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News are owned by the SAME company (the Denver Newspaper Agency), although they both publish a daily paper. While one may lean left, and the other a little right, it is NOTHING like what it used to be.
And they wonder why newspaper readership is down 40%?
We have Gannett here and they are terrible!
The question, then, is why are most if not all of those newspaper agencies tilt left? There are many rich Republicans. Can’t they get into the news business?