The Daily News is a "New Democrat" newspaper that is center-right on foreign policy, center-left on everything else.
BTW: You forgot to add the Staten Island Advance, and the Bergen Record (Nearly as bad as the NYT). People in Westchester tend to read the Times and the Post. "Snoozday" is as boring as Lawn Guyland (I delivered it as a child) and the Star Ledger is good for Paul Mulshine (my dad delivered it when it was the NEWARK Star Ledger).
OK, anyone know the newspaper situation in Connecticut?
Actually I used to like Newsday a long time ago (10 to 15 years ago). The Daily News you can read in about 5 mins and the Times was always the Liberal rag it still is today and back then the Post was the daily version of the National Enquirer. Newsday used to be the only paper that had any substance. Unfortunately they tried to break into the NYC market and for some reason they thought they had to go ultra left and they hired (stole) many of the most Liberal "Journalist" from the Daily News and other papers. It was a big failure of course and they had to reduce their ciculation back to just Long Island (and Queens). It was really funny because a lefty journalist goal of course to be in Manhattan and now all these elites were stuck in the middle of nowhere(to them)on Long Island. Apparently Newsday still hasn't changed and is a left as ever.
As for the Bergen Record, I was thinking of it but it's just a cheap clone of the Star Ledger.
But Paul Mulshine?????? I guess compared to the rest of the Ultra liberal Star Ledger you can call him Right Wing, But for what I have seen he is just another liberal writer. Some of his recent coulums include
» Rick's views on rights are best kept private
» The right should back local filters on smoking
» Hating the French is a waste of time
» Smoke-free bars? I'll drink to that
Actually It seems lately all he writes about is How wonderful the NYC smoking ban is and how evil and rotten smokers are.
Everyone in Western CT - that is, the outer NYC suburbs - reads the Post, Times and Daily News like the rest of us, except they usually take their diddly local town paper too, most of which are owned by chains large or small, and suck in the same ways local papers do everywhere else, including having overwhelmingly liberal staffs and editorial pages. Generally they'll read the local paper on the train into the City, toss it in the giant recycling bins on each track inside Grand Central (a great place to get free papers, by the way!), and grab one or more of the NYC papers at a newsstand or have it waiting for them at work.
A lot of people buy the Post as a second paper in the afternoon to read on the train home. I always have thought that the stupidest move Murdoch ever made with the Post was taking it off a 24-hour production schedule. (It used to literally publish edition after edition all day and night, so whichever copy you bought had news never more than a few hours old.) At the very least, he ought to bring back an special afternoon edition to just sell around Grand Central, Penn Station, etc.