Original sentence: Buckley, Jr..  Ironically, the paper, otherwise on the left, carried Buckley's column until Buckley's death.In 2004, the Gazette purchased the Daily Mail, with the intention of shutting it down.The "combined" paper is thus the legal and ideological successor to the Gazette, although a group of former Daily Mail employees produce a single editorial page which is supposed to represent what the previous paper's conservative views might have been on current topics
Edited sentence: Buckley, Jr..  Ironically, the paper, otherwise on the extreme left, carried Buckley's column until Buckley's death.However, within a few weeks, the Daily Mail editorials also mirrored those of the Gazette.In 2004, the Gazette purchased the Daily Mail, with the intension of shutting it down.The "combined" paper is thus the legal and ideological successor to the Gazette, although it was stated at the time that a group of former Daily Mail employees produce a single editorial page which was supposed to represent what the previous paper's conservative views might have been on current topics.The Gazette has always taken an editorial view in opposition to the business practices of many corporations, yet it was the subject for first a federal and now a state investigation  anti-consumer practices in relation to the Daily Mail.While nominally a consolidation of the formerly separate Gazette and Daily Mail, it is the legal and ideological successor to the Gazette