# Do you read the New York Post? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491 "2007-12-28T17:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/1 "2007-12-28T17:53:58Z")
I do, when I get the chance. I like the Times and the Daily News, but they’re too small. For the Daily News, most times I don’t even bother, and I rarely, though occasionally, pay $1.25 for 3 sections. But not every day. So the Post it is for me. Do you read the Post? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/2 "2007-12-28T18:00:44Z")
I only read the front page headlines, which remind me how utterly stupid of a “newspaper” it is. That had always been sufficient cause for me not to buy it. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/3 "2007-12-28T19:41:46Z")
If I have an empty kitty litter box and no available kitty litter, I’ve found there’s nothing like the Post. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/4 "2007-12-28T20:07:59Z")
The Post is cheap poison. It has an undeniably deleterious effect on humanity. It is, in fact, one of the worst things ever. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/5 "2007-12-28T21:37:03Z")
No, and _hell_ no. Their latest bit of utter classlessness: In their NFL rankings, they have an [asterisk](http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/09/18/new-york-post-puts-asterisk-next-to-patriots/) next to the New England Patriots. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/6 "2007-12-28T21:42:36Z")
I do. Or I did when my parents got it. (My mom always was ashamed for the neighbors to see it.) It’s a lot of fun even though I don’t technically agree with its politics. Plus the gossip section is actually pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/7 "2007-12-28T21:45:35Z")
Is the Post sort of a tabloid, or what? Edit: To answer the OP: I don’t read it, no. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/8 "2007-12-28T21:51:37Z")
I haven’t lived in New York City for 20 years now, but I used to read the Post regularly, and still pick it up when I’m in town. Why? Two reasons, really: They had (by far) the best sports section of any paper in New York City, and they were the only paper that carried my favorite conservative columnists. The “news” section, of course, is a bad joke. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/9 "2007-12-28T22:57:24Z")
[QUOTE=Wakinyan] Is the Post sort of a tabloid, or what? Edit: To answer the OP: I don’t read it, no. [/QUOTE] Technically its a newspaper, but the kind that only uses single syllable words in their headlines: COP SLAIN IN NUN STAB CRIME. The best thing about it is that it makes the _Daily News_ Look like the _New York Times_. Heck, the _News_ is somewhat respectable in its sports coverage. I certainly read it for a laugh when someone leaves one behind on the train, but I wouldn’t pay _money_ for it. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/10 "2007-12-28T23:25:13Z")
I can’t verify the accuracy of the story, but it’s worth repeating. Supposedly after Murdoch bought the Post, the advertising people paid a call on Macy’s, trying to get them to advertise in the “new” Post. They pulled out all the charts and demographic studies to show how their readers would rush to Macy’s, if only the store advertised in the Post. The store’s advertising manager supposedly replied “Your readers are our shoplifters.” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/11 "2007-12-28T23:33:42Z")
For laughs if I find one on a bus seat. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/12 "2007-12-28T23:55:17Z")
[QUOTE=Hello Again] Technically its a newspaper, but the kind that only uses single syllable words in their headlines: COP SLAIN IN NUN STAB CRIME. [/QUOTE] Well of course it’s a newspaper, but it’s also a tabloid, as opposed to a broadsheet like the “serious” papers. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/13 "2007-12-29T00:10:07Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] Well of course it’s a newspaper, but it’s also a tabloid, as opposed to a broadsheet like the “serious” papers. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I was trying distinguish it from the “tabloid press” which I usually take to mean celebrity gossip rags. The _Post_ is an entirely different flavor of crap. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/14 "2007-12-29T01:27:35Z")
I read both the _News_ and the _Post_. I find them both interesting papers. Although it’s true that the _Post_ _is_ a Murdoch-owned, conservative-leaning paper, some of the things they write about are surprisingly un-conservative (I recall one spread about anti-global warming clothes, for instance- I thought conservatives thought global warming was a myth!) And both papers insult people in their headlines- calling them “sickos,” etc. Not something you’d see in, say, the _New York Times_. They’re both similar papers, except one is liberal-leaning and one is conservative-leaning. Oftentimes, they even end up using the same headline for a front cover (Stephen Colbert poked fun at this on his show once). Both papers give an interesting look at how New Yorkers think about the world around them. As the _Post’s_ own Cindy Adams says: Only in New York, kids, only in New York. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/15 "2007-12-29T03:11:18Z")
I didn’t even read it when I lived in NYC. And my cats would’ve been insulted if I’d used it as cat litter. My father had worked for the Post, very early in his commercial artist career, and it was actually a respectable paper back then. But that was over 70 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/16 "2007-12-29T05:07:05Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] For laughs if I find one on a bus seat. [/QUOTE] So _that’s_ what you tell people when they see you reading the Post. 😃 Too bad the Post has declined so badly into tabloid hell. I used to pick it up some afternoons when I was commuting home from school. The news section was half decent and the editorials were even intelligent. This was back when the Daily News was the paper people bought and then pretended they’d found it on the subway. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/17 "2007-12-29T05:52:22Z")
I read it to find out what the .25 cent caste is being told to think. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/18 "2007-12-29T08:15:04Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a _New York Post_ in person, but their headline for Ike Turner’s obituary was awful enough that _Newsweek_ reported it: IKE BEATS TINA TO DEATH. Wow. That’s classy. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/19 "2007-12-29T12:54:09Z")
[QUOTE=Tool of the Conspiracy] I don’t think I’ve ever seen a _New York Post_ in person, but their headline for Ike Turner’s obituary was awful enough that _Newsweek_ reported it: IKE BEATS TINA TO DEATH. Wow. That’s classy. [/QUOTE] See? Read it for laughs. The Post is famous (or is that infamous?) for their headlines. I think the Ike one will could even replace Headless Body in Topless Bar. I Am Death Wish Vigilante didn’t capture the attention it should have. Although I’m sure they’d wished they had thought of it, Ford To City: Drop Dead was the Daily News. One of my favorites that doesn’t get mentioned much, if at all. There’s a close up of Abu al-Zaw. . . um, some Al-Qaida guy who is very much dead. Really, really dead and really up close. The headline reads GOTCHA! As if that wasn’t awful enough, the dead guy has a speech balloon coming out of his mouth that says “Bring on the virgins.” Stay classy, NY Post. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491/20 "2007-12-29T13:47:02Z")
I actually don’t see much bias in the New York Post, other than George Will columns. But, my bias sense has been dulled because my dad watches Fox News. Also, they don’t only use one-syllable words. Yesterday, they used the word “assasination” multiple times, as New York did a collective head scratch. 😃 😃 😃 Also, I’ve never even been to NYC. Never even been to Jersey. Though I’m going there in the summer. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-the-new-york-post/431491.md?page=2)