Gannett also bought both major papers in the Detroit market years ago. The Detroit Free Press was the liberal rag. The Detroit News was the “conservative” paper. After Gannett bought them both, they began to change the editorial slant of the News to a more liberal bent. Now we see that the News has decided to break a pattern that is over a hundred years old of endorsing Republicans as they picked Johnson over Trump just yesterday. What Gannett has done is to totally alienate their News readers to the point that the News will now disappear from the Detroit area market. Subscriptions will fall to the point that the News will be another NYTimes, becoming a just another bankrupt liberal rag, like the Arizona Republic is sure to follow.
Gannett infected four major metropolitan Louisiana areas 30 years ago - Shreveport, Monroe, Lafayette, and Alexandria. They all absolutely refuse to address local government corruption unless the TV stations shame them into it.