Reply #2: I don't know if that's really fair. [View All]

[SteppingRazor]

It completely depends on the paper. For example, KR owns the highly conservative Denver papers, but the more moderate Miami Herald (except where Cubans are concerned, in which case the Herald is far-right). Yet even the Herald fires its most muckraking reporter practically on a whim if it suits them (see: Jim Defede)

gannett, meanwhile, may own USA "McNews" Today, but most of its other papers are just small-town rags, and therefore almost by definition somewhat conservative. Gannett owns the Burlington paper, a very liberal town, and even that paper skews somewhat rightward.

I think you'll find that, where major newspaper companies are concerned, there's not really a whole lot of agreement in voice from one paper to the next -- unlike comprehensive media companies such as, say, NewsCorp.