Yes. My local area paper, the Baltimore Sun, is terrible. It’s completely in bed with local politicians. It attacks the challengers they don’t like, and looks the other way as the ones it’s in bed with use the city and state govt as their piggy bank. It’s like Pravda.
For a time, I read the Washington Post, but I felt it was redundant with other left-leaning sources I was consuming so I switched to the Wall Street Journal so that I would have a conservative leaning source to balance the PBS NewsHour which was my other main news source at the time.
I have a philosophy that one should ALWAYS have at least one news source from either side of the aisle because there is no such thing as unbiased journalism…maybe there never was, but if there was, it’s definitely long since dead.
I was quite impressed with WSJ. They seemed to have a pretty good insight into alot of things that other sources were missing, including some aspects I had inside knowledge about. My father also had a similar experience. Their opinion pages are pretty biased, but the news coverage is actually much less biased than what I see in most other papers.
After I left WaPost, I went back later after I’d stopped watching NewsHour and considered getting an online subscription to WaPost to be my left-source, but by this point the old family that used to own it had moved on, and the decline in professionalism was REALLY stark under Bezos. Every article was littered with bias words and emotional priming. It was awful to see such a formerly glorious paper having fallen so far. So needless to say, I cancelled my trial subscription.