So what are you implying then, James --- that the screamingly obvious and inarguable leftward bias of the ADN somehow just happened by accident?

Actually, all the evidence, and common sense, points to your scenario being more or less exactly the case.  The ADN is even more shamelessly partisan and biased than it used to be when it was the Anchorage Daily News --- and it was pretty bad even then.

Are you old enough to remember the days (as I am, and do) when newspapers and other media outlets left their editorializing (only) on the editorial pages?  This pathetic selective reporting and nonstop editorializing under the guise of "news" is just another example of the corruption and degeneracy of our society and our culture.