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The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[2] Since 1993, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and, as of October 2006, is one of the 10 largest newspapers in the United States.[3] Its editorial offices are located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, in Manhattan.
Paper's historyImage:AlexanderHamilton.jpg Hamilton Image:WCBryant.jpg Bryant The paper was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about $10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the New-York Evening Post,[4] a broadsheet quite unlike today's tabloid. Hamilton's co-investors included other New York members of the Federalist Party, such as Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott,[5] who were dismayed by the election of Thomas Jefferson and the rise in popularity of the Democratic-Republican Party.[6] The meeting at which Hamilton first recruited investors for the new paper took place in the country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion.[7] Hamilton chose for his first editor William Coleman,[8] but the most famous 19th-century Evening Post editor was the poet and Abolitionist William Cullen Bryant.[9] So well respected was the Evening Post under Bryant's editorship, it received praise from the English philosopher, John Stuart Mill, in 1864.[10]
Dorothy Schiff purchased the paper in 1939; her husband, George Backer, was named editor and publisher. [20] Her second editor (and third husband) Ted Thackrey became co-publisher and co-editor with Schiff in 1942,[21] and recast the paper into its current tabloid format.[22] James Wechsler became editor of the paper in 1949, running both the news and the editorial pages; in 1961, he turned over the news section to Paul Sann and remained as editorial page editor until 1977. Under Schiff's tenure the Post was devoted to liberalism, supporting trade unions and social welfare, and featured some of the most popular columnists of the time, such as Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Max Lerner, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, and Eric Sevareid. In 1976 the Post was bought by Rupert Murdoch for $30 million.[23] The Post at this point was the only surviving afternoon daily in New York City, but its circulation under Schiff had grown by two-thirds.[24] The Murdoch yearsWhile in the past the newspaper had been a long-established politically liberal stalwart, in recent years the paper has adopted a conservative slant, reflecting Murdoch's politics. Murdoch imported the sensationalist "tabloid journalism" style of his British tabloid papers such as The Sun, typified by the Post's famous April 15, 1983 headline: HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR. The Post also recycled The Sun's famous GOTCHA headline, this time in reference to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi instead of the Falklands War.
HighlightsThe paper is well known for its sports section, which has been praised for its comprehensiveness; it begins on the back page, and among other coverage, contains columns about sports in the media by Phil Mushnick. The New York Post is also well known for its gossip columnists Liz Smith and Cindy Adams. The best known gossip section is 'Page Six', edited by Richard Johnson. (Despite the name, since the end of the 20th Century the feature has usually been printed on page 10 or page 12.) It is reported that "Page Six" is the first thing many celebrities turn to each morning. Feb. 2006 saw the debut of Page Six: the magazine, distributed free inside the paper. SalesThe daily circulation of the Post slumped in the final years of the Schiff era from 700,000 in the late 1960s[citation needed] to approximately 418,000.[citation needed] A resurgence in the 21st century boosted circulation to 673,379 in September 2006,[1] achieved partly by lowering the price from 50 to 25 cents. One commentator has suggested that the Post cannot become profitable as long as the competing Daily News survives, and that Murdoch may be trying to force the Daily News to fold or sell out.[31] Mob Control[citation needed]Salvatore Vitale, the brother-in-law to Bonnano crime family mob boss had his son Anthony Vitale work for the newspaper on a no-show job until Salvatore arranged for mob associate, Robert "Bobby" Perrino to work there. Perrino was a supervisor in the distribution arm of the newspaper. In the early 1990's the Bonnano crime family had it's hooks deeply embedded in the distribution arm of the newspaper, which was then located on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The labor pool was infested with mob associates, including three "made" Bonnano crime family soldiers. The Bonannos were paid wages- some of which amounted to $50,000 a year-- of no less than fifty-one "no-show" employees. In addition to this labor scam, contracts went to friends of the Bonnanos, who kicked some money back as a way of returning the favor. For years Bonnano soldiers stole thousands of papers a day and sold them to vendors for twenty, thirty cents each, when at the time they cost fifty cents. Over time the Bonnanos became so entrenched at the newspaper that they eventually set up loan shark operations, sold firearms and organized narcotic distribution directly from the building. The NYPD then hit a wire tap in the office of Perrino who was the delivery supernintendant that had hired Vitale's son. Perrino was the son of Bonnano crime family underboss Nicolas "Nicky Glasses" Marangello. Perrino wasn't a made member of the family but he ran the distribution arm and handed out the no-show jobs and doctored the ledgers so that the stolen paper bundles weren't missed. He even did a little shylocking on the side. He was murdered by fellow employee, and mob associate Richard Cantarella, who was a "tail man", a worker who rode on the back of delivery trucks and unloaded the bundles. Perrino's body remained hidden until December of 2003 when his skeleton was found embedded in the concrete floor of a construction company in Staten Island. He had been shot multiple times in the head. His death was ordered by Vitale and Richard Cantarella. After Perrino's dissapearance, the government lost their star witness and a group of Bonnano crime family soldiers were sent to Riker's Island, but Salvatore Vitale and Richard Cantarella, avoided prosecution. Nobody was ever charged for the murder of Perrino.[citation needed] CriticismsMurdoch's Post has been criticized from the beginning for what many consider its lurid headlines, sensationalism, and blatant advocacy, and conservative bias. In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review asserted that "the New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem - a force for evil."[32] Critics say that the Post allows its editorial positions to shape its story selection and news coverage. But as the Post executive editor, Steven D. Cuozzo, sees it, it was the Post that "broke the elitist media stranglehold on the national agenda." Post supporters cite a series of recent scandals at the broadsheet New York Times as proof that this problem is not unique to the Post. According to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, the New York Post was rated the least credible major news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet to receive more responses calling it "not credible" than credible (44% not credible to 39% credible). [33] There have been numerous controversies surrounding the Post:
The Post and the Daily News often take potshots at each other's articles and their accuracy, particularly in their respective gossip-page items, saying that the juicy information printed about some celebrity or other has been checked, and that the celebrity or his/her publicist has denied it. In certain editions of the February 14, 2007, newspaper, an article referring to Senator Hillary Clinton's support base for her 2008 presidential run referred to United States Senator Barack Obama as "Osama" (Bin Laden)[35], the paper realized its error and corrected it for the newer editions and the website[36]. The Post noted the error and apologized in the February 15, 2007[37] edition. Earlier, on January 20, 2007, the New York Post received some criticism[38] for running a potentially misleading headline, "Osama' Mud Flies at Obama"[39], for a story that discussed rumors that Sen. Obama had been raised as a Muslim and concealed it. The story itself never mentioned the Saudi terrorist, and the rumor is false. Trivia
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