Socialist-Review? Or Spokesman-Republican?

Fresh young reporters at The Spokesman-Review quickly learn that they have been pronouncing the name of their paper wrong.

“It’s the Socialist -Review,” a neighbor will correct them, with a grin.

The second thing that they’ll learn, possibly from neighbors on the opposite side of the street, is that their paper might as well be called The Spokesman-Republican, since it marches in lockstep with the GOP.

In most cases, this tells you more about the political leanings of your neighbors than it does about the paper. A look into the political history of The Spokesman-Review shows that the reality is more complicated/ Jim Kershner , Spokesman-Review. More here.

Question: Which is it for you — Spokesman-Republican? Socialist-Review? Or Spokesman-Review?