Ann Coulter loves to call out the descriptions of such attackers e.g. "a Minneapolis man."
When I moved to the area I heard the local paper referred to as the "Red Star" and the "Star and Sickle."
The writing was so poor that even the NYT mocked the paper. That caused major butt hurt at the time.
When Paul Wellstone won his senate seat the paper devoted 6 full pages to his 'historic win.'
It is not just the political slant. The paper does not report on facts or news very well. They are in such a hurry to launch into analysis and opinion that they leave out the facts. When I travelled to Fargo ND I noticed the local paper was better written. They would put who, what, where, when into the first paragraph, unlike the Star Tribune.
I actually subscribed to the Sunday NYT for years because I wanted to real a real newspaper. !!!