The Bee, my home town paper. Used to deliver them as a kid. They are about as left as you can get. Read the letters to the editor and you’ll get a view into the Bee and Sacramento’s idiots who think the gov has all the answers.
The publisher of the Bee at the time was booed off campus of a local university for attacking the Bush administration for being "mean" to the suspected terrorists -- Bee employees responded blaming the parents of the students as being "uninformed" or just plain stupid.
It goes on and on..
for years and years Bee articles never mentioned Republicans / conservatives without tagging them "controversial," "divisive," or the like.
A long-time (Bee favorite and former) mayor embraced Red China while pushing to get the military bases (two AF and one Army) kicked out of town. She got her wish they are all gone.
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Of course they immediately apologized profusely.. yet..
"January 14, 2000 in News SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) A newspaper photographer who returned safely from such flashpoints as Panama, Haiti and Somalia was in serious condition Tuesday after a savage beating suffered while taking pictures for a springtime feature." It took ages for the best and brightest Bee brains to report the racial aspect of this racist attack.
The best and brightest Bee brains saw nothing wrong with the cartoon.. it was just satire.
Yet.. earlier they dropped the "Non sequitur" cartoon because one of the cartoons was critical of newspapers.