Tabloid switch

[supergee]

When I was growing up, The NY Daily News was a sensationalistic right-wing rag, but The Post was notoriously liberal (alleged headline: Snowstorm Hits Negroes, Jews Hardest). Now they’re trading places. The Post is pure Murdoch, but the News is moving left, attacking the NRA and Donald Trump. Today’s headline says BRADY HAS NO BALLS, because the New England quarterback declined to call Trump out on his hate speech. If we must have trashy tabloids, I can think of far worse targets.

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[onyxlynx]

Seriously. On my annual or so visits East, I have been marvelling at the lessening of stridency at the Daily News (I remember Tom Paxton's song), although they still maintain a certain faux-populism. I have with one exception not touched the Post since the late '70s, and have officially declared it Not a Newspaper and don't think of it or use it as a source.