Amazing how that headline makes it sound like a bad thing LOL
By then, the liberal Dallas Times-Herald was on its way toward extinction. The once staunchly Conservative Morning News was well into becoming liberal, thus spinning what should have been a positive news story into a smear piece.
That was about the time that the DMN started prefixing thug criminal names with "Mister". Thus Darius Acqwon Jefferson was transformed into the much more likable Mr. Jefferson.
Had this remained a solid two newspaper town (granted, an impossibility even then), Belo may have its flagship operation tilted toward the Right.