The New York Post has made a typical howler… but I’m not sure how innocent it is. The slant of the Post has always been a bit… well, not so much Pro-Republican as Anti-Democrat, and the things I’ve seen in their Op-Ed over the years and in their columnists, well it boggles the mind. Of course, the problem is that I may be confusing it with the Daily News. I don’t think I am, but the possibility is there. This is the original article but it may vanish shortly. Now, this article was picked up by other newsservices at least half an hour before the offical announcement (Edwards) was, and what I’m wondering is… in today’s rapid-communications network, how responsible does a newspaper or other place of journalism have to be? This is half an hour after I heard about Edwards, and Gephardt is still front page on the Post’s website… which can be changed faster than their papers, which show the same thing. What responsibilities does a news site have to its readers?
Aw, man, that’s a classic. I’ll see if I can find one on the subway and take it home and tack it up.
The website is currently showing only the back page 
Smart move by the Post. Who is going to rush to buy a paper that has something everyone knows in it? (Other than regular subscribers and purchasers, of course.) Now, I’d buy one for kicks, if nothing else.
Before the Kerry announcement at 9:00, CNN held up the New York Post showing the headline that Kerry chose Gephardt. Sure to be a classic such as Dewey Beats Truman. The CNN newsman made sure to mention that the Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the “F-Word News Network”.
All that is true, but I wouldn’t attribute to a conspiracy what can be explained by incompetence or just plain bad luck. Murdoch may influence the paper but he’s certainly not micro-managing the headlines.
The true story about this will start to circulate in media-related papers, like the NY Observer, in a couple of days. I’ll see what I can link to.
The Post certainly does not have friends in the Democrats or in the Kerry campaign. This smells like one of the real insiders feeding them a line in the hopes that they’d embarrass themselves. Hey, is their coverage going to be any *more * hostile to him because of it?
Instead of their readership questioning their credibility more, though, more likely they’ll portray it as more Democratic perfidy - the story will be that Kerry changed his mind after the story broke just to make a staunchly patriotic, truth-telling news outlet look bad.
I’d take issue with calling the Post a newspaper. 
They may very well claim they were duped, who knows. I’ll do my best to shed a tear.
My Dad just came back from errands early–the NY Daily News AND the NY Times also had Gephardt headlines!
So, no conspiracy. My sub NYT edition is printed around 4 am–it had “Kerry will announce choice this morning” box with no name. The one Dad bought at the Newsstand at 9:30 had Gephardt. He also saw the Daily News with the Gephardt headline. I’m going to see if I can find them on the subway–collector’s editions!!
So, it was not a NY Post thing at all. Heh. What the hell sort of info did they get, from who, and how many heads are rolling right now?
The Times, at least, will probably have a mea culpa story in a couple of days.
The Smoking Gun has the front page of the NY Post, now since removed from its own web site.
Updates: What I’m hearing is that the Post got it first. From where, god knows.
Second, Yeah, I was right, I was thinking of the Post, not the News, insofar as their slanted, barely legible coverage.
The Times doesn’t do mea culpas either quickly or well or . When did they and the Daily News go to press? After the Post? Could be just monkey-see, monkey-do journalism at work. It can’t be a coincidence that *only * NYC papers ran it.
As if we needed more proof that the New York Post has no correlation with reality. I’m only surprised they didn’t have Kerry selecting Bat-Boy as veep…
I doubt anyone will ever be able to say for certain whether the ‘exclusive’ NYP story was leaked to NewsCorp by Democrat Party operative to make Murdoch Inc look bad.
But one thing I notice: Closer examination of the file photo by Getty Images sure makes it appear Sen. Kerry truly adores Rep. Gephardt
Since the Daily News ran it also - and according to Mehabitel, the New York Times - I think that’s very unlikely.
I was misled–the Times had a little box on the front which did not have Gephardt’s name; and the Daily News did not have a Gephardt banner. The messengers who told me that they’d seen them at the newsstand have been shot.
However, I do have a copy of the soon-to-be-famous Post. Half the newsstands in Manhattan had the goof one, half had a hastily printed next edition. Sometimes they were exhibited in piles side by side
But no, the Times and Daily News did NOT print such headlines. Now I’m off to dump the bodies. East, Hudson, or Harlem?
While I realize it’s a longer trip for you, I think, in deference to bad gangster fiction, the only appropriate choice is the East River. Got cement?
I couldn’t find the nypost page. I take it you saved a copy? Can you e-mail me?
True Blue Jack
Wow, that’s going to be a collector’s item…not!