Unabashedly Liberal

The new owners of the St. Louis Post Dispatch have pledged to toe the paper's liberal line for at least five years. Specifically, they'll stick to the paper's astonishingly biased editorial pledge, which includes the promise that the paper:

"will always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."

The paper's assumption that privileged classes always merit attack and the poor never do still stands, dispite philanthropy and good by many of the wealthy, and murder and mayhem by many of the poor. And I'd like to see a balance sheet of attacks against Republican vs. Democrat demagogues. Some of the paper's recent editorials:'

War on the working poor - Missouri's medicade shame: Stealing ambition
Family leave: Don’t hurt workers
Judicial Independence: Politicizing the judiciary

So the Post Dispatch is deliberately liberal; the Sacramento Bee is deliberately socialist. As WND says in its story that was the basis of this post:

The founder of the Sacramento Bee, part of the McClatchy chain, included in the codicil of his will a requirement that the newspaper remain committed in perpetuity to the promotion of "public ownership of private property."