Both NYC Tabloids Fought Mamdani, But Each Did It Their Way
The New York Post and Daily News agreed that Zohran Mamdani should not be mayor of New York. But the ways they opposed him vastly differed,
Mamdani Beats Cuomo and the Press Hacks (Again)
The city’s media oligopoly looked to a rejected, corrupt sleazeball to save the city from a fresh-faced progressive who vowed to make life more affordable.
Tabloids Want Crime, Not Rent, on NYC Voters’ Minds
New York City’s two big tabloid dailies gave far more coverage to crime than to the affordable housing crisis in the past year.
The ‘Total Anarchy’ of Wet Cops
For some, seeing a cop humiliated suggests a breakdown of society in a way that seeing a cop engaging in the humiliation and abuse of a black person does not.
Decades After False Convictions, ‘When They See Us’ Highlights Media Failure
The conversation around When They See Us would be incomplete without a serious reckoning with corporate media’s role in fanning the flames of racist hysteria and misinformation.
‘Using Media to Create This Idea There’s a Gang on Every Street Corner’
“They’ll look for someone that fits the narrative that they’re already going in with, and they’ll run that, and they’ll run it prominently over and over and over and over.”
Tronc to Daily News: Drop Dead
On July 23, it was announced Tronc was laying off half of the editorial workforce, including its two top editors. The enormity of this carnage isn’t just industry news. For New York City, it feels like an offense to the entire city.
NY Daily News: Broken Windows ‘Works,’ and if It Hurts Immigrants—‘Too Bad’
The Daily News editorial board grasps on for dear life to a racially targeted, decades-old policing philosophy as something that “works” without having to prove to their readers any demonstrable correlation to crime levels.
