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.
Reporting on Influence of Pro-Israel Funders Is Not Antisemitic
Establishment attacks on outlets that expose corruption are evidence of good journalism. In this case, they are meant to shut down dissent against the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
Boosting RFK Jr., Murdoch Pushes 2024 Rightward
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is doing its best to keep Kennedy’s ambitions afloat–and push the political center of gravity to the right.
Media Crime Hype Helps Roll Back Reforms
Actual data about life and death in jails is not enough to move New York’s governor, but the sensationalism about crime is enough.
Calling Bud Light Saga a ‘Controversy’ Falls Flat
A transgender woman promoted a product and now, judging by the tabloid frenzy, it’s a cultural schism that has ripped apart a nation.
Reformist DAs Spark Murdoch Empire Freakout
Rupert Murdoch’s biggest outlets have spent the beginning of 2022 on a full-scale attack against progressive criminal justice reform.
The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype
Right-leaning media have used the uptick in certain crime categories to argue we need more cops and law enforcement to save our cities.
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.
Murdoch Paper Gives Away the Game: Cuomo Is on Their Side
The New York Post is letting slip that although the media tend to view the Cuomo scandals as a Democratic problem, the political and economic stakes here involve an aggressively center-right executive against a liberal legislature.
Shining a Spotlight on Anti-Homeless Reporters
The New York Post cannot and will not give up its obsessive, cruel and deranged fascination with shaming homeless people.
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.
Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
As consensus emerges not just around the science of climate change, but also its amplifying effects on extreme weather events, Murdoch’s media empire—and the Republican Party that its talking points inform—will remain the last holdout.
For Halloween, NY Post Dresses Up ‘Anarchist Plot’ Warning as Journalism
Keeping up the tradition of seasonal scares, the New York Post published a story about a potential “Halloween Revolt”: an attack by anarchists on police nationwide.
Action Alert: New York Post Gets Ethel Rosenberg History Wrong
The New York Post reported that ” Ethel Rosenberg…was executed with her husband for treason.” That’s just wrong, and deserves a correction.
Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power
The media-driven conversation on policing and public safety begins with the simplistic premise that the amount and aggressiveness of policing solely determines the crime rate.
‘He Just Made It Up’: New York Post Accused of Fabrication in Machete Lawsuit Story
For NYPD officials, the New York Post report was a perfect example of why the NYPD needed millions of dollars to fight “frivolous” lawsuits. But there’s a problem: One of the key details of the report appears to have been made up out of whole cloth.
‘He Just Made It Up’: New York Post Accused of Fabrication in Machete Lawsuit Story
For NYPD officials, the New York Post report was a perfect example of why the NYPD needed millions of dollars to fight “frivolous” lawsuits. But there’s a problem: One of the key details of the report appears to have been made up out of whole cloth.
David Gregory—and Other Famous Left-Wingers
The New York Post refers to Meet the Press’s “famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.” A quick overview of Gregory’s record doesn’t turn up much evidence of leaning to the left–but plenty to the contrary.
Criminal Justice Media’s ‘Twisted’ Coverage
Daryl Khan of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange strayed from most media coverage around New York’s “biggest gang raid ever” by writing about the people living in the housing projects at the heart of the early-morning raid.
