When I was growing up in the Motor City, there were two major newspapers: the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News.
FACT-O-RAMA! I wanted to get a Detroit Free Press delivery route (morning delivery), but after a rash of paper-boy disappearances, my mother made me wait until we jumped on the “white flight” express to Westland, Mich.
The Detroit News was considered the more conservative of the two papers, but the definition has changed, as have the parties.
The Detroit News always endorsed Republicans in presidential elections, but abruptly stopped in 2016 when it decided to back Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. The paper also chose not to back Donald Trump