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NYT Celebrates Vulgar Left-Wing Turn of 'Newly Relevant' Rival NY Daily News
NBC News ^ | January 31, 2016 | Clay Waters

Posted on 01/31/2016 11:39:01 AM PST by Kaslin

The Times’ online headline, “Drop Dead? Not The Newly Relevant Daily News,” refers of course to it's rival's infamous 1975 headline: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The Daily News also rehashed its own headline recently to attack Ted Cruz for his crack about “New York values.” You guessed it: “Drop Dead, Ted.” That passes for “relevance” among the left and the NYT.

Mahler took us inside the liberal hive mind, buzzing with giddy self-congratulation over yet another puerile attack on Republicans, while the Times dutifully reprinted the controversial Daily News covers that made liberals go giddy.

On a recent afternoon, Jim Rich, the editor in chief of The Daily News, sat at his computer playing around with front-page headlines, a few well-chosen words that would capture the day’s biggest news: Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary.

In a few minutes, he had what he thought was a promising candidate: “CRAZY, STUPID LOVE.”

Mr. Rich walked it out into the newsroom for feedback. The paper’s copy chief, Jon Blackwell, proposed an alternative: “I’M WITH STUPID!”

“I said, ‘Yes, that’s much better,’” Mr. Rich recalled recently at the paper’s offices in Lower Manhattan. “That’s a winner.”

Where someone else may see desperate liberal hackery at work, Mahler saw “continuing cultural relevance.”

It was the latest in a series of attention-grabbing covers that have shifted the conversation around the struggling paper. Just a few months ago, after an aborted sale and sweeping layoffs, The News seemed to have completed its devolution from the model of a big-city tabloid to a battered symbol of the diminished state of America’s newspapers. But the recent string of covers, which were all widely shared on social media, have sent a very different message -- if not about the paper’s long-term financial prospects, then at least about its continuing cultural relevance.

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The News has certainly been going for it, most notably with its provocative front page after December’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. “GOD ISN’T FIXING THIS,” read the headline, accompanied by screen-grabs of tweets from a variety of conservative politicians offering “thoughts and prayers” to the families of the victims. The next day, the cover of The News identified the head of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, as a terrorist.

Mahler devoted a single sentence suggesting the left-ward political slant of the new Daily News before pivoting to praise the headlines.

Predictably, the News was denounced on the right and celebrated on the left for the way it chose to frame the story. But whatever one made of the paper’s San Bernardino covers, they demonstrated that the front-page headline -- “the wood,” in tab-speak -- can still pack a punch, even if most readers are encountering it on their smartphones....

Mahler neutrally relayed the Daily News’ nastiness.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016presidential; donaldtrump; doublestandards; jonathanmahler; newyorkdailynews; newyorkpost; newyorkslimes; pseudopopusism; sarahpalin; tedcruz; waynelapierre
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1 posted on 01/31/2016 11:39:01 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Differentiation ?


2 posted on 01/31/2016 11:47:23 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump then Cruz for me. I want to see Hillary, Bernie or any demoncrap crushed)
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I think a clever strategy. As opposed to restrained liberalism, full-throated anti-Republican, anti-conservative screeds, yelled in street lingo, is more provocative and attention-grabbing. I think this newspaper will recover if it keeps this up. Leftists are hungry for this.


3 posted on 01/31/2016 12:12:41 PM PST by nwrep
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To: Kaslin
Mahler took us inside the liberal hive mind, buzzing with giddy self-congratulation over yet another puerile attack on Republicans, while the Times dutifully reprinted the controversial Daily News covers that made liberals go giddy.

I never realized his symphonies were so rich ...

4 posted on 01/31/2016 12:14:53 PM PST by x
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To: Kaslin
NYDN is simply a local tabloid
5 posted on 01/31/2016 12:23:31 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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6 posted on 01/31/2016 12:30:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: Kaslin
On a recent afternoon, Jim Rich, the editor in chief of The Daily News, sat at his computer playing around with front-page headlines, a few well-chosen words that would capture the day's biggest news: Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary.

Former Deputy Night Sports Editor at the Post.

He must have some heavy axe to grind with his former bosses.

7 posted on 01/31/2016 12:55:04 PM PST by x
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.... anti-conservative screeds, yelled in street lingo, is more provocative and attention-grabbing. I think this newspaper will recover if it keeps this up. Leftists are hungry for this.

Give the junkies the full spoon! Hell, quadruple the dose -- and use the uncut stuff! Let them puke and die, choking on their own spew ....

What a bunch of America-haters the Communist Enemedia have made of their Atlantic Slope mindslaves.

Time to cut 'em loose, boys -- the six "Boston States" and downstate New York. Let them float away to join Canada -- if the genial Canadian Socialists are stupid enough to take on this crew of wreckers.

8 posted on 01/31/2016 1:25:22 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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