In the 60's and 70's there were two major newspapers in Dallas. The Dallas Morning News and The Dallas Times-Herald. The Morning News was the conservative newspaper and made no bones about it. It was impossible to read a news story that was not filled with conservative opinion.

The Times-Herald was killing them in circulation, but the Morning News made more profit since it could charge more for advertising due to it's better demos.

Then a change was made in the Morning News. The old guard was out and a new bunch took over. All the spin was gone and readership shot up since people saw they were getting more information on a story and no opinion.

The Morning News then bought out the Times-Hearld, sold off all of it's equipment and tore down it's building. Today it is a parking lot. Some people feared the worst, thinking there would be a return to the old ways of the 60's but if anything the Morning News became more balanced. It had to if it wanted to pick up the Times-Hearld readers.

Dallas today is nothing like it was during the 60's. It is booming in almost every sector and their is no longer a good-'ol boy network that controls everything which included the information printed in The Dallas Morning News.

But Dallas did not really take off as a world class city until people started taking voting in a serious manner, and they needed accurate information to do this. Once they had it things got better for everyone.