Yesterday the New York Post—Rupert Murdoch’s down-market tabloid, for those who are blessed to live beyond its circulation area—ran this front-page editorial demanding that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg shut down the Occupy Wall Street encampment to reclaim the city’s “dignity”:
Uhh…. that message would be coming from the paper that ran this dignified cover, waaay back in August:
And don’t forget the Post‘s Iraq War weasels covers:
And why not this, while we’re at it?
And let’s not forget the paper’s stellar work during the Anthony Weiner scandal: “Weiner Exposed,” ” Hide the Weiner,” “Weiner: I’ll Stick It Out” and “Obama Beats Weiner.”
Today’s Post cover, for the record:
Mr. Mayor, please return a sense of dignity to the proud city the New York Post calls home. At least until the next time the Phillies are coming to town.
This is an honest question. Who reads the NY Post? Is it white East Coast liberals, Wall St execs, white or blue collar types, Tea Partiers, or a cross section of America? Is there a targeted audience? I’d like to here what people think.
‘Post’ readership: braying, ideological jackasses and media watchdog groups.
I believe it’s subway trash.
According to the Media Kit on their website, the readership of the Post is:
Daily 2,051,850
â┚¬Ã‚¢ Average Age: 49.9
â┚¬Ã‚¢ Age 25-54: 56.7%
â┚¬Ã‚¢ Male/Female ratio: 61%/39%
â┚¬Ã‚¢ College Educated (I+yrs): 58.9%
â┚¬Ã‚¢ Married: 54.5%
â┚¬Ã‚¢ Employed: 67%
â┚¬Ã‚¢ Average HHI: $120,139
â┚¬Ã‚¢ Average Home Value: $599,981
For the NY Times, for comparison:
4,958,000
Male 49%
Female 51%
Median Age 50
Median HHI $109,172
College+ 65%
Professional/Managerial 41%
C-Suite/Top Management 11%
The NY Times costs $2 for a weekday edition. The Post costs 75¢.
yeah, murdoch has spread his dignity all over the place.
zuccotti park with hundreds of tents and even homeless derelicts included- is neat, wholesome, and even majestic in comparison.
Yeah, a philosophy for the philistines! “Those “animals” are going to take your hard earned money away.
Looks like the Post has cornered the college dropout market (College 1+ years=58.9%)
Good one, Peter H. I like when you provide illustrations.
“Crazy stox like a hooker’s drawers: ‘UP, DOWN, UP'”…with a newsworthy photo of a prostitute to boot. That is a masterpiece of vulgarity; and an unintended metaphor for capitalism to boot.
Anything Murdoch is involved with lacks dignity. I cannot fathom thinking that this stuff can be classified as news. Let me know when they link OWS protesters with little green men, would you?
New york post aside -the mayor of New York is not complimentary of the OWS.He has questioned the anti semitic bent,and the filth.As well as the cost to the city ,and the loss of rights to people who are being blocked and harrassed moving to and from work.Moving into the xmas season when commerce is so important to the lifeblood of New york he of course worries about the effect there.I think so far this is all on the fence.New yorkers won’t take an escalation moving forward very well.The tipping point could happen anytime.And any outbreak of lawlessness will prompt a cleaning of the streets .I’m still waiting for a more cohesive explanation of what they are all doing out there.Ask any person there(I have) and they all have a different explanation.Most of those explanations beg the question ;ok but why are you HERE?Why aren’t you at the white house?
The filth, the filth! Those filthy, filthy, rotten leftist libtarderoonies! Whay hasn’t that bastard Soros at least sent a couple cases of Depends and some Similac to those dreadful leftist bongo-beaters? I personally talked to everyone (that’s right!) at occupy Chicago, and you know what? Not one of them has gotten his check from Soros yet, and boy are they pissed! One fellow I met was stooped over in an alley, planting an IED outside the door of the Republican Chicago headquarters; he laughed when I asked him why he was there: “Don’t use my name,” said the Rasputin-looking fellow as a huge grin filled his anarchist-leftist bearded face. “I hate rich, successful, job-creating people, and the working-class too. I want to burn it all down, and I’m starting right here.” I backed out of the alley, and called the cops. Even though I’m a Democratic-Socialist, I’ve got some scruples. The last thing I did was high-five a guy carrying a sign that said, “Hang the bastards with their own silk stockings”. Old habits die hard, I guess.
The simplistic reason some are looking for as to why the protesters are out there: To drive the trickle-down fairy out of town for his lying ways.
If anything has done damage to New York City’s dignity, it’s the N.Y. Post.
Tim I have a humorous side note.The 2 clinics on the periphery have reported an overwhelming number of requests for STD tests.It is a “virtual flood” according to Doctors who work there.Seems we are going back to making love not war :)
….And thats why so many silk stockings are laying about.
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