Washington Post Grasps for New Direction as Trump-Era Boom Fades

One thing I have always wondered about is why NYC did not have a really good local broadsheet. Something on the order of the Chicago Tribune or the Boston Globe that would be a good local paper and generate revenue from mass market retailors and classifieds. I would have thought the New York City market would have been big enough to support such a paper. I don't know enough about the New York Herald Tribune to know if that was such a paper and if it was just a matter of the unions driving that paper and the Brooklyn Eagle, et. al broke.

 

The NY Post was a broadsheet into the 1940s. World-Telegram was a broadsheet. Herald / Tribune.

The original Eagle closed even before the bigger strikes of the 1960s. Same for the original Sun. Both have been revived recently at least once. Staten Island Advance is still a broadsheet, right? But recently narrowed.

I guess New Yorkers feel like they get enough local coverage from the tabs.

 

This article seems like snarky inside-the-dugout bullshit tinged with a bit of envy and a desire to please Murdoch.

 

Same, but I'm seriously considering ending the subscription and putting the money toward a local news site. My renewal is up in about three weeks. I already have subscriptions to two local papers, which I'm probably going to chop one. There's only so much money one can afford.

 

Before WW2, the Herald Tribune was the Times' rival and actually the leading broadsheet in town. But during the war, newsprint was rationed and the papers had a choice, cut back on ads, or cut back on news. The Trib chose to run the ads, the Times chose news. The Trib's short-term profit decision eventually doomed it, as whaddaya know, people were real interested in news about the war and couldn't get enough of it.

 

My options are GateHouse papers, the Boston Herald (MediaNews) and The Boston Globe. I access the Boston papers online with my mom’s subscription, because she won’t use the online service. I’ve subscribed to the six-months-for-$1 offers tossed out by GateHouse, but I won’t give that company any serious money. I could pay $100 a month and they’d still lay off people, so there’s no point. I’m not sure what the closest “local” daily paper to me would be.

 

I subscribe to the Post and NYT digital, the most basic offer. Both had specials last January of ridiculous rates. Those were to jump significantly next week, so I began to cancel them.

Was presented online with the "Would you stay for the ..." special rates, which are:

NYT - $16 a month
Post - $9.99 "for one year" (that's what it says)

Of course I renewed at those stupid prices. Who wouldn't? I also have subs to WSJ, Atlantic, New Yorker, LAT, The Athletic (for those deeeeeep dives) and others. They're so ridiculously low it's difficult to not get them.

 

I subscribe to both but only the digital versions. Youre right about everything but the website. I love that I can read the digital Post in either a web version or a replica of the paper version. The Times website and ap version is harder to navigate to find all the stories.

 

Jesus, does anyone think the fat orange bastard is going away? He'd have to be dead not to matter to his minions.

 

Even then, some would be waiting for him to sing duets with JFK Jr.

 

Here is the tweet



And for good measure, the mobile app headline

 

damn liberal media