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Most metropolitan newspapers have reacted vigorously to regional nibbling. Far-roving dailies such as the Denver Post and the Portland Oregonian hold down huge territories with bureaus and stringers. The Detroit Free Press, which publishes five out-of-city editions a day for readers in a 150-mile radius, boasts in one editor's words, that it "will go in and take on a local story that the local daily won't handle.'' But such hands-off stories are becoming increasingly hard to find. As Oregon Editor Alton Baker Jr. says: "Readers want us to stick our necks out." Though, in their own home towns, the great majority of all U.S. newspapers today have a morning or evening monopoly, there has never been less room for monopoly mentality. The paper from the next city is often knocking at the door.