The Advertiser was an awful paper long before Gannett bought it (“Chain Reaction,” Jan. 21). Its shameless biases, incompetent reporting, indifference to local events and laughable spelling habits existed long before Gannett took over. To be sure Gannett has taken the paper to new lows in these and other respects, but to suggest The Advertiser ever demonstrated anything like journalistic integrity or competence is at odds with the facts.