I have a dirty, dirty habit. Every time I go to New York, I buy the Post.
Everything about the NY Post is dirty now, from its constant innuendo, such as ‘news’ stories like Obama’s “Judas Priest” to the more straightforward “Teacher busted in orgy with 15-year old boy” (by the Education Reporter!).
Opinion pieces are even worese. Take “Bam’s Land of Losers”, where columnist Adam Brodsky interprets Barack Obama’s address to Wesleyan graduates as saying “Face it kids–Americans are losers. Pathetic, needy dependents who can’t mke it without help. So forget your dreams, dear graduates. Go forth and aid your fellow deadbeats.” (All quotes from May 30, 2008 NY Post.)
Even the paper and ink are smutty, dirty.
The most common criticism of the Post is political, that it’s Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing flagship. But it’s the dumbing down of the paper (looks like a third-grade reading level) without truly succeeding as a tabloid (sex, crime, entertainment and sports) that’s truly unforgiveable. Only Keith J. Kelly’s Media Ink is really a must read.
I buy it each time expecting it to be better, to be more like the informative, friendly Post of the 1960’s and 1970’s I remember my father bringing home each afternoon. But as a woman I encountered in NY put it, “It’s not a newspaper. It’s a rag.”
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