Notwithstanding the merits, or not, of these two papers, neither of them ever have any bad news. The main direction of content appears to come from their single-service
PR organisations (most of whom are on a two year posting with no previous experience of
PR). If you want to read about a pilot getting 3000 hours on type, or a new ship commissioning then it's perfect, but why for example don't they have news on recent court martials, people getting busted for drugs/drink driving, or boys and girls heading for Colchester. You would expect this balance of news in even the worst local rag, but not in either of these newspapers, more propaganda than proper news. Get the balance right, stop pretending all is well and tell it like it is, your readers are not stupid and they deserve better.