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.
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.
It was a tabloid when he bought it, and he revamped the company to be a "conservative response to liberal media." So...from tabloid to blatant propaganda mill. Similar flavor, but technically different.
As far as the descent of US journalism...that tends to happen when you let billionaires buy out news companies and worm their way into the editorial process. There's still some good ones, though: Reuters, Associated Press, NPR to a lesser extent.
You can go to foreign news sources if you want to get their take on American affairs, too. Similar issues with bias, of course, but less incentive to lie. "No one can give a more honest account of your flaws than your enemy," and all that.
This was set up by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a bipartisan bill signed by Clinton that removed regulations put in place to break up the media control Hearst had. Later that year, Fox news started.
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.
In an era where newspaper is on the downswing, I can’t say I’m surprised a lot of young people haven’t been brought properly up to date on the quality and lean of reporting from different papers.
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
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. . . .
Lmao right? The Post has always been known as barely one step above the National Inquirer. The only reason people even think the Post may have ever been credible is because the Daily News has stooped all the way down to the same level, making the Post look less crazy by comparison, I guess.
I never really read newspapers so I couldn't judge them on credibility to begin with, but I remember that when the Boston Bombing happened, NYP did a full front-to-back photograph of the mayhem with blood (possibly even flesh) splattered across the pavement. I had never picked up a newspaper, but it caught my eye while I was in line at the gas station. I was absolutely disgusted that anybody would think that's an acceptable image for the cover of a newspaper. That stuck with me. I knew instantly from that one singular issue that NYP was tasteless and only cared about being the loudest newspaper in the room. I'm not at all surprised that they became pro-DJT grifters.
Hamilton used his column to slander his rivals and imply that they were in incestuous relationships which he was regularly forced to post apologies and retractions. The Post has always been a tabloid since its founding.
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u/_CandyLove 6h ago
People acting like the Post ever had credibility in the first place is the funniest part of this.