Which of these newspapers is liberal, which is the right-wing rag?

[displacedyankeedem]

I honestly don't know in a few markets what the liberal paper is(and conversely, which one is the right-wing rag).

Denver,CO
Denver Post or Rocky Mountain News

Salt Lake City,UT
Salt Lake Tribune or Deseret News

Dallas/Ft. Worth,TX
Dallas Morning News or Fort Worth Star Tellegram

Detroit,MI
Detroit Free Press or Detroit News

Minneapolis/St. Paul,MN
Minneapolis Star Tribune or St. Paul Pioneer Press

Seattle,WA
Seattle Post-Intelligencer or Seattle Times

Thanks

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. There are no liberal newspapers anymore-except some weeklies

like the Village Voice or Boston Phoenix. The Boston Globe isn't even a truly liberal paper anymore.

[trotsky]

2. Mpls StarTribune is still fairly liberal.

Their editorial page usually takes the liberal side. But there's PLENTY of conservative content, too. But considering the large number of cons who write in to whine and moan, I figure the Strib must be doing something right. I mean "left." ;-)

The Pioneer Press is more center-right.

[SoCalDem]

3. Independent or family-owned papers do not exist anymore

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2076212

Singleton, Scaife Among Political Contributors
MediaNews Group CEO William Dean Singleton




By Joe Strupp

Published: January 26, 2004

NEW YORK While their newspapers are busy covering the elections of 2004, owners and top executives of some of the country's largest papers and chains are busy contributing to candidates -- or at least their money-hungry political parties, according to campaign finance records filed with the Federal Election Commission. Richard Scaife, the outspoken conservative publisher of the Tribune-Review (Click for QuikCap) in Pittsburgh tops the list with a $25,000 donation to the Republican National Committee last July, while also giving $2,000 to George Bush's re-election campaign and $4,000 to the U.S. Senate bid of Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Pat Toomey.

Across town, William Block Jr., chairman of Block Communications, which owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Click for QuikCap) and The Blade (Click for QuikCap) in Toledo, Ohio, offered two $250 contributions to the Democratic National Committee in 2003.

In other family newspaper finances, George R. Hearst, chairman of the board of The Hearst Corp. of New York gave $1,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, while his cousin, William R Hearst III -- grandson of William Randolph Hearst and former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner -- donated $2,000 to the Joe Lieberman for President campaign and another $2,000 to VenturePac, a political action committee supporting issues related to venture capital firms.

The Murdoch family showed its political leanings with a $2,000 donation to the Bush-Cheney campaign from Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., who also sent $2,000 to Sen. John McCain's 2004 re-election effort and the same amount to the campaign of California Republican Congressman Bill Thomas. Wendi Murdoch, his wife, also donated $2,000 to Thomas, while his son, New York Post (Click for QuikCap) Publisher Lachlan Murdoch gave $2,000 to Bush-Cheney. Also in New York, Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman and co-publisher of the New York Daily News (Click for QuikCap), granted $1,000 to the re-election coffers of California Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos.

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in 1995, these were the chains
http://www.cptech.org/telecom/newspapers2.html

[loftycity]

4. Minneapolis Tribune swings right Conservatives in Liberal Clothing

I know to many journalists who have written for the paper and they are appalled by it's right slant. Conservatives in Liberal clothing