The Florida Supreme Court is solidly Democratic, but the legislature is Republican. The U.S. House is Republican too, while the Senate is now 50-50. Almost all of the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court were appointed by Republicans. Most newspaper publishers are Republicans too. Except for the ones born in Commonwealth countries, who are Thatcher conservatives or royalists.
Partisanship finds a happier home in a newspaper than in a lot of other places.
Yet a newspaper isn't the worst place to be surprised by the occasional voice of dispassionate reason. You've kept the mysterious disappearance of stewardess Traci Todd on September 14 in the public eye pretty much singlehandedly ever since. Now it's October 15, and you're reading your paper's inane three-page paean to Nine, a new hot spot. And what you know and other readers don't, because the name's been kept out of the papers, is that Kevin Williams is the ex-boyfriend Todd's family suspects of murdering her. Todd's skull was found November 25, and Williams was then arrested and charged with murder.