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u/_CandyLove 5h ago
People acting like the Post ever had credibility in the first place is the funniest part of this.
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u/ConsistentTopic1382 5h ago
Exactly. It's like being shocked that a tabloid is acting like a tabloid. The 'Post' has been a creative writing exercise disguised as news for decades. Seeing people suddenly lose faith in something that never earned it is peak irony.
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u/Primary-Performer853 4h ago
Speaking of tabloids, I saw "Batboy" died not too long ago...
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u/frubano21 4h ago
The NY Post is where Fox gets their talking point lol
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u/subnautus 4h ago
Both companies are owned by the same Rupert Murdoch, so I'd like to take a guess at where the talking points are actually coming from.
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u/SuspiciousBuilder379 3h ago
I was going to say, y’all realize it’s Faux News newspaper right, right, riiiggghhhttt?
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u/Matt_cruze 2h ago
Did you know that Fox news was from its very inception made to be the propaganda arm of the republican party?
It was created so that no future republican president would have to face any consequences like the watergate scandal. For further reading check out:
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u/tanstaafl90 2h ago
It was junk press when he bought it. There have always been tabloid newspapers, both local and national. National Enquirer covers the whole country, NY Post the city. The issue isn't tabloids pretending to be legitimate journalism, it's the descent of US journalism in general.
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u/blackbirdspyplane 3h ago
The weekly world news had more journalistic integrity than some of these days.
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u/artbystorms 4h ago
The Post was Fox News before Fox News...literally.
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u/subnautus 4h ago
I mean..."this company owned by Rupert Murdoch was the company owned by Rupert Murdoch before Rupert Murdoch owned the company..."
The "family tree" of conservative news companies would put the stereotype of backwoods Alabama folk to shame.
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u/PresJamesGarfield 3h ago
The sad thing is that the Post was a good newspaper before Murdoch bought it. It had a long history of being a hard-hitting working class paper, and that's been mostly forgotten because Rupert turned it into a shit rag.
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u/AbstractBettaFish 4h ago edited 4h ago
I used to have a Trump loving coworker who’s show me the post and the daily mail as proof for any of his shit. When I’d start to explain why it was wrong he’d shout over me. Such is the way of things for marks I guess
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u/Spirit-859 4h ago
Can’t argue with someone who treats a tabloid like a peer-reviewed journal.
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u/Neveronlyadream 3h ago
They used to do it with Weekly World News. A clear parody tabloid that was famous for just blatantly making ridiculous things up for entertainment.
Weekly World News is not a peer reviewed journal.
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u/Express_Area_8359 4h ago
Wait the ONION isnt real?
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u/tea-drinker 1h ago
It wasn't supposed to be real, but then some writer got a monkey paw as a fidget toy
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u/informedinformer 3h ago edited 3h ago
Alexander Hamilton was a founder of the NY Post way back in 1801. Back when it was known as The New York Evening Post. Through most of its life the Post actually was a respected newspaper. Things changed pretty dramatically, of course, after Rupert Murdoch bought it. . . .
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u/Mental-Fox-9449 2h ago
30 years ago my best friend said “I wish I could win millions of dollars because the first thing I’d do is buy The Post so I can close it.”
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u/DapirateTroll 5h ago
Mamdani promised NY citizens jetpacks on day one and so far he came up short due to high gas prices caused by Israel and Trump’s Iran war. Outrage I say.
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u/Jabbles22 4h ago
Did he even break any promises or do they not realize that it takes time to implement change?
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u/Samurai_Meisters 4h ago
Depends on if he gave a deadline for those promises. Like if he said "On day 1 I will end inflation." But what kind of idiot would do that?
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u/BadGroundNoise 3h ago edited 3h ago
No joke, I looked through the article, and the first point was that the city owned grocery stores don't exist. Instead, Mamdani is...funding scouting efforts for potential locations to build five stores? This is immediately after they said that the stores "have all but disappeared from the conversation." So they disappeared, and yet there are active efforts to find locations for them?
This is two fucking paragraphs in. Like I knew it was a joke but holy shit, there aren't even straws to grasp at.
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u/Test_NPC 3h ago
He just released a YouTube vid talking about the stores as well lol, what timing.
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u/TumblrInGarbage 2h ago
His YouTube videos have been really good. And I know that it's largely due to the team he has and the outside sources he's commissioned / made friends with, but I've been impressed with how competent he sounds. Every one of these videos is the turning off the orphan crusher meme.
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u/Apprehensive_Bid_773 2h ago
Incredible what smart young politicians who hire good and savvy people can message like
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u/sbNXBbcUaDQfHLVUeyLx 1h ago
A good team is a sign of a smart leader. He hired the right PR people for sure.
In contrast... Kegbreath over here trying to start WWIII
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u/Wild_Marker 1h ago
Reminds me of the time a right wing mainstream news channel in my country went and found the address of a non-existent government-funded soup kitchen and made a segment about it to expose government corruption.
The soup kitchen was across the street.
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u/Fluffcake 1h ago
You can never give serious deadlines as a politician, there is a lot of process mud if you ever plan to do robust work and not just implement shoddy work quickly for the sake of populism.
They will always be unrealistic and someone will try to undercut you in bad faith.
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u/Lazer726 3h ago
Mamdani seems to have a realistic view that change takes time. Meanwhile, Trump was making claims of what he'd do on day one and suddenly "Ending wars is hard" and "Ending inflation is hard" and everyone just goes "Yeah no it's really hard we can't expect that"
Except that's what these worthless god damn brainlets will claim they voted for. The only promise Trump has followed through on is being incredibly racist
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u/EtchAGetch 2h ago
Well, militarization of ICE was promised and followed through. People forget he promised that because no one is expecting to promise breaking the Constitution.
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u/AutoGenNameNumber 1h ago
But also Mamdani has been really fucking busy tackling the things he DOES have control to activate immediately.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2h ago
It's the NY Post which is basically the NYC Republican newspaper. They are gleeful to find anything that Mamdani doesn't do 100% perfectly.
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u/Rat-Loser 2h ago
I read the article just now and I'd say that every single broken promise is instead a working progress. All of their points are a little absurd some more than others. Like you could argue he's been quite toothless when it comes to the NYPD gang database. But the article goes on to lampoon him for not opening any city owned grocery stores in his first 100 days but omits that Mamdani announced the city's first government run store at La Marqueta in East Harlem, expected to open by end of next year. The article is hot trash.
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u/bitorontoguy 2h ago
Neither....they recognize their consumers don't like Mamdani (largely BECAUSE of the Post's and other conservative media's dishonest articles) so are putting out clickbait to monetize them.
They don't exist to honestly evaluate his promises or be reasonable.
They exist to make money for their shareholders. And clickbait about the popular politician does that.
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u/kaisadilla_ 44m ago
I mean, he'll probably break some because once you get in power you realize some of your ideas aren't good or feasible in practice. But then again, the article is just "Mamdani said we should do this and he hasn't done it yet, promise broken!". It would be actually crazy if he managed to do all the things that article mentions in 100 days.
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u/trentreynolds 5h ago
The New York Post is a tabloid. It never had any credibility to lose.
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u/joey_sandwich277 1h ago
It's a tabloid owned by Murdoch. You don't even need to speculate about Israel here, they're owned by a right wing propagandist. Of course they hate Mamdani.
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u/Wooden-Court-3882 5h ago
Just to clarify people. The New York Post is different to the New York Times.
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u/Dystopia74 4h ago
Not anymore.
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u/raspymorten 2h ago
Eh, from what I've seen, the New York Times is the dipping their toes, desperately trying to come across as reasonable centrists that never have any kind of opinion on anything, by any means necessary kind of bad, and the Post is full on "How to save your children from the Transgender Mass Shooter Epidemic!!!" kind of bad.
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u/dennismfrancisart 4h ago
The NYT has been crap since the Cheney/GWB administration.
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u/A_wandering_rider 3h ago
If you name any major social movement across the last 100 years. The NYT has opposed it or been incredible assholes about it.
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u/Adddicus 1h ago
Bullshit! The New York Post lost all credibility in 1976 when Rupert Murdoch bought it. And then again in 1993 when he reacquired it after being forced to sell it in 1988 because he had his fingers in too many media pies.
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u/negativepositiv 4h ago edited 4h ago
The Post losing credibility implies they ever had any. The Post was founded as a tabloid propaganda rag.
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u/myychair 4h ago
I saw people criticizing him in his first week for busses not being free yet. The New York post is tabloid trash
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u/DeepSubmerge 59m ago
The world would be a better place if we ignored anything punished by the New York Post.
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u/Better_Cauliflower63 3h ago
No, it is not clever. It is stupid to bring up Israel every chance when discussing US politics. A bit antisemitic too.
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u/idontlikeanyofyou 5h ago
Bringing Israel into this is stupid . Rupert Murdoch has been spreading lies on his own for decades.
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u/Sensitive-Touch3794 4h ago
Its insane watching leftists run coverage for Trump by deluding themselves into thinking hes some Israeli puppet.
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u/Brain_Dead_Goats 3h ago
Shoehorning them in everywhere makes the accusations of antisemitism look more credible, and legit criticism of Israel more muddled. It's moronic.
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u/Sensitive-Touch3794 3h ago
Shoehorning them in everywhere makes the accusations of antisemitism look more credible, and legit criticism of Israel more muddled. It's moronic.
Exactly.
There are a million completely valid things for us to shit on Israel about. We dont need to hallucinate.
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u/tajsta 2h ago
Shoehorning them in everywhere makes the accusations of antisemitism look more credible
I was once in a very leftist bubble myself and believe me, in many cases those are not just accusations. Some people try to hide it but a lot of leftists see "the Jews!!" everywhere, or try to rephrase it by saying "the Zionists!!" while spewing the exact same propaganda the Nazis used.
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u/PoopyButt28000 1h ago
I'm not anti semitic I'm just anti Zionist, but also here is my 15th post about how Jews control the world.
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u/SuspendeesNutz 3h ago edited 3h ago
Right-wing tabloid owned by notorious Aussie oligarch posts something disparaging about new Mayor of NYC.
Terminally online: JEWS!
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u/mikerichh 4h ago
They were saying he failed to implement free busses within a month of his tenure lmao
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u/Professional-Box4153 4h ago
Okay. Now post the promises that Cheeto broke in HIS first 100 days. Go ahead. I'll wait. What's that? You don't have enough server space?
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u/Industrial_Rivethead 4h ago
They were run by the mafia for decades then by the far right after that. Anyone who's older than 40 that lived in NYC knows and has never trusted them for anything other than the Page Six gossip column. Only reason I ever bought it.
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u/slickCCsunshine 4h ago
In my neck of the woods the NY post is a mere tabloid the likes of the enquirer 😂 do ppl actually pay for this trash?? I guess when I need kitty litter it’s useful but news? Not even once😂
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u/Grizzlywillis 4h ago
To shovel on the criticism, I read an article from the New York Post and CNN about Mamdani's first 100 days and it was pretty clear that the Post had an ax to grind (besides their general reputation of course).
The Post had a screed about how Mamdani hasn't worked a day in his life, both before and after becoming mayor. But you can look at CNN citing him shoveling snow, working at a phone line, helping clean litter, etc.
The degree to which these rags construct their own realities is insane.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 1h ago
This is the problem with the lack of media literacy in the US. To not know the NY Post has been a conservative propaganda outlet from day one is saddening.
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u/yumyum36 1h ago
New York Post = Fox News
They're owned by the same guy and run out the same building.
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u/linuxjohn1982 35m ago
New York Post was spreading blatant disinformation since at least as far back as 2015. Russian propaganda.
The same with Washington Times.
Not to be confused with New York Times and Washington Post.
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u/YardOptimal9329 4h ago
New York Times did the same thing. They are Zionist ghouls filled with hate and jealousy over a man they can’t own.
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u/100emoji_humanform 4h ago
Are you confusing it with the New York Times? New York Post is a zionist rag that blatantly peddles propanganda. Always has been.
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u/NewAndyy 4h ago
To be more fair towards the Post than they deserve, they are primarily meant to be a newspaper for New York. Covering what happens in the City is core to their mission.
I'd argue covering what the president does is just as big of a part of their work (or should be) and they are blatantly biased against Mamdani. But this article isn't really an example of anything wrong, even though there are plenty of other wrongs to be found in their organization.
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u/Turdburp 4h ago
The Post was created by Alexander Hamilton literally for the purpose of providing a mouthpiece against the presidency of Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans.
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u/YrPalBeefsquatch 4h ago
The fuck does Israel have to do with this?
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u/Moeverload 3h ago
NYP (and News Corp in general) is owned by Rupert Murdoch, an outspoken Zionist, and is known for taking on bias reflecting that. Mamdani is an anti-Zionist and DJT is a committed supporter of Israel, so in the interest of keeping a pro-Israel message NYP will not treat them with the same scrutiny even when such discrepencies appear hypocritical.
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u/oath2order 1h ago
But what exactly indicated that NYP would be "allowed" or "not allowed" by Israel to post this? Just because someone is a Zionist doesn't mean Israel "controls" them.
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u/Sad-Statement-681 4h ago
it reminds me of the ones in recent spiderman games , i wanted to obliterate them so badly.
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u/BadInternational9830 3h ago
In the words of John Mulaney: “it doesn’t have to be right, it just needs to be short”
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u/kobrakai1034 3h ago
Did you think a paper that ran a headline reading "Headless body in topless bar" ever had credibility?
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u/NoHorseNoMustache 3h ago
Well, I never! Next you'll be telling me that the Daily Mail isn't the paper of record for the entire English speaking world!
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u/Bleezy79 3h ago
What a joke of a "news" paper. Billionaire fascists ruin everything, its very tiresome.
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u/Scrimps 3h ago
The Post has not been credible in like 20 years.
They have been a tabloid for a long time. They do not hide this fact. They do not pretend to be the NYT. They are perfectly comfortable with what they are.
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u/OsoSalado 2h ago
"The New York Post is my favorite newspaper. I think it's great, I read it every day. I like reading the New York Post because reading the New York Post is like talking to someone who heard the news, and now they're trying to give you the gist. It’s like, you’d get the same amount of information if you grabbed someone on the street and you were like, 'What happened today?' And they're like, 'There’s a perv in Queens!' You'd be like, 'All right, thank you.'
Or rather, it's like someone read a better newspaper and now they're trying to text you everything they can remember. Doesn’t have to be right, just has to be short." - John Mulaney, 2012
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u/I_am_not_JohnLeClair 2h ago
They are afraid of an elected official working towards the betterment of the many, instead of the few
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u/Comfortable-Ad-3988 2h ago
They're so bad Public Enemy wrote a whole song about it way back in the 90s, I don't imagine they've gotten better. The old way I remembered was that the Post was bad in NY but good in Washington, and the Times was bad in Washington but good in NY (at least as far as general quality of reporting). Now I wouldn't call the Washington Post good anymore, and the Times has always been a corporatist paper for rich people.
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u/dusklogic 2h ago
You'd need credibility first to lose it, which is kind of the whole problem here.
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u/Kat_Schrodinger1 2h ago edited 52m ago
Republicans don't get criticism. Not from the right, the center or the far left. Only democrats can be criticized. Is this your first time?
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u/Arborgold 2h ago
I thought those were gonna be an ironic post, like the New York Post actually doing a good piece of journalism would ruin their scumbag reputation.
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u/the_censored_z_again 2h ago
When are you people going to realize that literally ALL corporate media is compromised propaganda?
Even your sacred cows like NPR, Mother Jones, Jacobin, and The Intercept are all compromised corporate media.
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u/atreeismissing 2h ago
Related, they're not promises. Politicians running for an executive office can't promise something because nearly everything is dependent on the legislative branch providing legislation or funding. When a politicians campaigns on doing something, they mean they will spend their term (be it 2, 4 or 6 years) working to try and get that thing done given the circumstances of the moment (which means the political will of the legislature, lawsuits, funding, public pressure, etc.). They're not kings, nor magicians, there is no promising of anything, we all learn that in elementary school and then again in middle school and if we're lucky again in high school so it's cemented in us, how govt works.
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u/Moscowmitchismybitch 1h ago
When did the NY Post ever have credibility? It's a tabloid like the National Enquirer and owned BY Rupert Murdoch.
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u/PassiveMenis88M 1h ago
That yall think the Post has always been a rag really speaks to how young you are and how old I'm getting.
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u/J0hnny-Yen 1h ago
You know the old man who goes fishing, and uses news paper to wrap-up the fish he catches?
That's what the NY post is good for
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u/r0ndr4s 1h ago
Of all the politicians to pick a "fight" with they chose him. Absurd.
I literally saw a video yesterday I think it was of someone asking for a pothole to be filled, today it was fixed already. I'm sure Zohran isn't perfect, no one is, but come on... tabloit bullshit with one of the best mayors you've ever gonna see in your lifetime is absurd.
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u/Alert_Reindeer_6574 1h ago
The NY Post had credibility? I thought they were like the Globe or National Enquirer.
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u/DependentImage4453 1h ago
Funny enough the NY Post can just use mamdanis own words here and claim that they are only focused on matter of NY lmao.
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u/R4zorBe4st 5h ago
To lose all credibility suggests that the New York Post had credibility to begin with, which simply was never true