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To: COUNTrecount
Is the NYPost a liberal rag?
4 posted on 08/21/2016 5:24:33 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

Quite the opposite. Only paper I could stomach in NY for 20 or more years now.

Not conservative, but far from liberal.

And besides the editorial pages, YES, it’s a rag :)


6 posted on 08/21/2016 5:25:57 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: servantboy777
Is the NYPost a liberal rag?
It's always been a "tabloid" - but not a liberal rag. The NY Daily News is a liberal rag. Disgustingly so.
23 posted on 08/21/2016 6:12:52 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: servantboy777

The New York Post has been a great help to the forum. It used to have a tabloid reputation however.

Not sure if it still runs any tabloid trash. I hope not. There’s no need for three headed alien insect people in this strange world to make news.


34 posted on 08/21/2016 6:37:55 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: servantboy777
Generally no, the NY Post is, IMHO, no friend of the Clintions and is conservative.
46 posted on 08/21/2016 7:02:20 AM PDT by blaveda
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To: servantboy777

“Is the NYPost a liberal rag?”

Owned by Rupert Murdoch. Same as Fox News....

In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the Post for US$30.5 million. Since 1993, the Post has been owned by News Corporation and its successor, News Corp, which had owned it previously from 1976 to 1988.

After his support for Maggie Thatcher I know Murdoch can use his media to support and elect conservative candidates. My only question is... Is Murdoch conservative or just out for his own power and money?

Per Wiki:
Because of the institution of federal regulations limiting media cross-ownership after Murdoch’s purchase of WNEW-TV (now WNYW-TV) and four other stations from Metromedia to launch the Fox Broadcasting Company, Murdoch was forced to sell the paper for $37.6 million in 1988 to Peter S. Kalikow, a real-estate magnate with no news experience.

When Kalikow declared bankruptcy in 1993, the paper was temporarily managed by Steven Hoffenberg, a financier who later pleaded guilty to securities fraud; and, for two weeks, by Abe Hirschfeld, who made his fortune building parking garages. After a staff revolt against the Hoffenberg-Hirschfeld partnership—which included publication of an issue whose front page featured the iconic masthead photo of founder Alexander Hamilton with a single tear drop running down his cheek—The Post was again purchased in 1993 by Murdoch’s News Corporation.

This came about after numerous political officials, including Democratic governor of New York Mario Cuomo, persuaded the Federal Communications Commission to grant Murdoch a permanent waiver from the cross-ownership rules that had forced him to sell the paper five years earlier.

Without that FCC ruling, the paper would have shut down. Under Murdoch’s renewed direction, the paper continued its conservative editorial viewpoint.

The Columbia Journalism Review stated “the New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem – a force for evil.”

Perhaps the most serious allegation against the Post is that it is willing to contort its news coverage to suit Murdoch’s business needs, in particular that the paper has avoided reporting anything that is unflattering to the government of the People’s Republic of China, where Murdoch has invested heavily in satellite television.

On February 18, 2009, the Post ran a cartoon by Sean Delonas that depicted a white police officer saying to another white police officer who has just shot a chimpanzee on the street: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” The cartoon dually referred to President Obama and to the recent rampage of Travis, a former chimpanzee actor; it was criticized as being in bad taste, primarily by making a reference to the racist stereotype of African-Americans being portrayed as apes. Civil rights activist Al Sharpton called the cartoon “troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys.” The Post has defended itself by stating that the cartoon was deliberately misinterpreted by its critics. (actual cut & paste from Wiki)

In certain editions of the February 14, 2007, newspaper, an article referring to then-Senator Hillary Clinton’s support base for her 2008 presidential run referred to then-Senator Barack Obama as “Osama”; the paper realized its error and corrected it for the later editions and the website. The Post noted the error and apologized in the February 15, 2007, edition. Earlier, on January 20, 2007, the Post received some criticism for running a potentially misleading headline, “’Osama’ Mud Flies at Obama”, for a story that discussed rumors that Obama had been raised as a Muslim and concealed it.


61 posted on 08/21/2016 8:11:51 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: servantboy777
Is the NYPost a liberal rag?

It's Paul Sperry.

Sperry has been covering the Clintons since the earliest days of WorldNetDaily.

Some of his early exposes on Clinton crimes:


The Clintotn's are no strangers to technology abuse to hide official acts. They are masters of it, not technology Luddites.

Paul Sperry, then the top investigative reporter at WorldNet Daily, reported in 2000 on how Bill Clinton purposely downgraded the telephone systems at the West Wing in order to hide calls going to/from specific telephones.

Sperry also reported on the missing White House emails of Al Gore, and how the entire email archive process was tainted, likely intentionally.


-PJ
67 posted on 08/21/2016 8:28:32 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.From Foxnews, May 31,)
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To: servantboy777

I believe the NYPost endorsed Trump many months ago..the far left looney rag is the New York Daily News..they are as Commie left as they come


94 posted on 08/21/2016 2:46:48 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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