Don’t forget that the Times influences all US newspapers that take its wire service. Newspapers have few resources for in-depth national news. There’s the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post/LA Times (they share a wire service, so if you get one, you get the other) and maybe McClatchy (formerly Knight-Ridder).

So newspaper readers have, at most, four stories to choose from on any national issue that gets reported, all of them leftist to some degree, or at least protective of whoever’s in power.

No wonder newspapers are in trouble.