Sorry - when your primary mission is not to report the truth, but to make Republicans look bad at every turn, people are going to stop buying your product.
It has nothing to do with slant one way or the other, or up the middle....
Newspapers are and have been dying for decades...
Regardless of their reporting style or accuracy.
Craigslist killed the local newspaper, taking away one of the most consistent revenue streams, that they could and did gouge blindly for, and did. Not to mention the LEGALLY REQUIRED publications of notices that were also being gouged.
“Newspapers are the watchdogs who hold our civic institutions accountable and act as a cheerleader for the unique fabrics in our society,”
I agree, but they (newspapers) gave up doing that 80 years ago. They went from being a watchdog to a lapdog.
I am happy to see them all go away