[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is reality hitting big media markets like New York. The city doesn’t need 3 or 4 dailies. No one reads them anymore. And the News always struggled to find its niche. It certainly isn’t the conservative paper. And the city’s liberal elites read the NY Times if they want liberal invective. And I guess no one wants a down market, highly partisan liberal paper. They ought to just put it out of its misery. This new company is going to experience nothing but losses too.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This newspaper used to be for the working-class, blue-collar New Yorkers. That was their niche. It has now morphed into just another elitist rag.

[jalisco555]

The Daily News was once the voice of blue-collar conservatism in New York. The writing was punchy and fun to read. They also had a terrific stable of columnists like Jimmy Breslin who really knew the city. Reading the Sunday News on Saturday night was a common ritual in many homes. But, as the saying goes, "roll left and die". Which they did.

Ironically the NY Post was once a hard left paper. It was weird to see the News and the Post trade ideological places.

[Dr. Sivana]

And the city’s liberal elites read the NY Times if they want liberal invective. And I guess no one wants a down market, highly partisan liberal paper.

There's a reason why half of the top 10 (and not including the WSJ) are New York papers. New Yorkers ride subways. The Times is not a tabloid yet, and the New York Post is not to everyone's taste. Yes, under 300,000 is a shadow of its former greatness, especially as advertising dollars have dried up simultaneously, but people still pick up the newspaper in NYC enough to keep three dailies going.

[xkaydet65]

Back in the days of when it was first owned by the Tribune the Daily News could make Joe McCarthy seem like Ethel Rosenberg. The paper even published an editorial saying JFK should have invaded Cuba cause while the US would have been nuked, The USSR would have been totally destroyed.

[Maine Mariner]

In about 1966,after a newspaper strike, did not a dozen NYC newspapers fold?