New Yorkers, is the NY Post trying to be the National Enquirer of 2024?

[senseandsensibility]

As a Californian, I never read it, never think about it, and don't know anyone who does. How influential is it on the east coast?

In the past week or so it ran misleading videos based on "cheap fake" videos showing Biden supposedly wandering around in Europe and then getting lost on stage in Los Angeles. The videos were posted by the RNC (of course).

So the NYP is working hand in glove with the RNC to spread fake stories about Biden. Sound familiar?

[Dave Bowman]

1. It's a right wing rag.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post

[Celerity]

4. and yet it is posted by so many here far too often, along with other RW rags like The Daily Mail and Newsweek

[sakabatou]

13. That was my thought, too

[thucythucy]

2. I think it's owned by NewsCorp--

in other words, the Murdoch family who also own Fox and the Wall Street Journal.

So yes, they're shills for Trump and the RNC.

[senseandsensibility]

3. It just seems like they're upping their game,

for the lack of a better term. Using cheap fake videos from the RNC to spread lies on their covers is pretty out there. Maybe they've always been this bad.

[Think. Again.]

5. It's always been a cheezy rag, now it's a...

....blatantly rightwing propaganda outlet and cheezy rag.

[senseandsensibility]

6. But how influential is it?

Do people talk about their covers in NY? Unlike the NE, they're not at the checkouts of every Walmart in the red states, so I guess that's a positive. I laughed off the absurd lies on the cover of the NE in 2016. Turns out it wasn't a big joke to everyone.

[thucythucy]

12. The paper is on newstands I think all across New York

and southern New England.

I don't know how influential they are, probably carry weight with the same people who saw the NE as offering actual news.

So in my humble opinion it's no joke.

Those people are shameless.

[LeftInTX]

20. The NY Post is free online. Unlike the NYT and the NY Daily News.

Maybe that's why it is being spread around.

[Carlitos Brigante]

7. This is just anecdotal. But I used to visit my brother in NYC every couple

of years, since he moved there (before his passing in 2014). I'd always people watch in the trains and I used to see lots and lots of people reading the New York Times. Over the years hard copies of newspapers gave way to phones and tablets. But in that time I did notice a significant shift from the NYT to the Post from the people carrying newspapers. I also occasionally will catch a glimpse of people's devices and saw more Post than NYC readers in passenger's digital media.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Wow

That doesn't sound good. Still, I suppose it doesn't matter too much since New York is solidly blue.

[LeftInTX]

21. NY Post is free online. NYT is not.

[pwb]

8. The New York Daily News is much better.

Fox is big on sports, so there's that.

[crim son]

9. I'd never read it before

but for some reason there was a copy in the waiting area at my local grocery store pharmacy. There were several pages devoted to reporting nasty and potentially untrue things about Biden, while I found not one article on Trump. I felt dirty after reading.

[senseandsensibility]

11. What state are you in?

I'm just wondering about its reach beyond New York.

[crim son]

14. I'm in Bangor, Maine.

So, in the NE but not next door to NY.

[LeftInTX]

19. Articles are posted here now and then.

It does have a celebrity tabloid thing going in addition to being a RW rag.

[meow2u3]

15. Alexander Hamilton is spinning in his grave

If he came back to life to see his New York Post turn into a right-wing propaganda rag, he'd probably overturn the entire company and send Murdoch the bill.

[senseandsensibility]

16. Good point

What a horrible transformation.

[LeftInTX]

17. Wow! Had no idea he founded it.

[LeftInTX]

18. It's been a Murdoch rag since 1976

When Murdoch owned the San Antonio Express-News, from 1973-90 it turned into a tabloid.

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From 1976 https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/weirdo-paper-plagues-s-a/

https://www.mysanantonio.com/about_us/article/San-Antonio-Express-News-History-Part-3-Wild-in-798457.php

"MIDGET ROBS UNDERTAKER AT MIDNIGHT"; "DISSOLVE OLD MAN IN ACID!"; "GUNNED-DOWN PREGNANT CAT FIGHTS FOR LIFE"; "VAMPIRE KILLER STALKS CITY"; "SEWER BOY STILL MISSING"; and "ANIMAL AUSCHWITZ."

I remember for Mother's Day in either 1983 or 84, the E-N ran a front page story about a woman who had been pregnant about 50 times. It talked about how her husband would rape her and how she would get pregnant before six weeks were over. It talked about her miscarriages. It was a disgusting article. It had nothing to do with being a mother and everything to do with having sex, getting pregnant and being raped by her husband. Somewhere in there, there were some live kids. I put the paper down, "Is this what they call journalism/news/is this what people enjoy reading in San Antonio?" It was nothing but tabloid stupid.

I'm glad Murdoch is out of here! At least New York has numerous papers.