Mr Graves, I am afraid that you are comparing apples and oranges. You also blatantly ignore your own publications actions. Your publication hosts a political forum for each election and then post YOUR picks for each office. Bias. I do not  disapprove but, as you say, what is, is. Your local publication is not nearly the political machine which many news outlets have become. I do not believe that our local publications show anything like the bias I read in the bulk of news oriented publications these days. That in no way reduces the bias I do read in our national publications every single day. 
  I would be more likely to again subscribe if local news did more in-depth and investigative reporting. That is reader preference, and more bias. When does bias become "fake news"? When those who write it intend to influence and shape accurate words to mean inaccurate things. To insinuate and to imply. Local media IS NOT the problem they lump as fake news. Even I will openly defend you on this.