At one time in my life I was able to parlay three years on the Reflector staff into a position as a professional, award-winning sports editor. I was told many times as a professional you are supposed to be as impartial as you could be because bias takes away your value as a reporter. Many times I was threatened with bodily harm because my reporting was not biased towards one school or another. That being said, I never would allow a story about one school to infiltrate into another school's story. The problem with the Clarion-Liar is the same one that forced both the Times-Picayune and the Mobile Press to downsize... no one is reading it anymore. I don't, and I probably never will again. Everything done with the C-L and the sister paper the Hattiesburg American is done outside Jackson, except for the newsrooms. Jackson is now just a bureau for the USAToday, Mississippi edition.
I suspect someone in the hierarchy of Gannett figures TSUN alumni are more likely to spend money with them on advertising, so they now orient the paper to them.