Teddy beaten again.Teddy Beaten Again New York's Post is almost enough to redeem the good name of Post's everywhere. Over the years since he bought it in 1977, Rupert Murdoch has rescued the Post from obscurity, with traditional, spirited tabloid headlines ("Headless Body Found in Topless Bar" is the classic), excellent political reporting in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Washington, and some of the best columnists in the business--the late Dick Young on sports, Max Newton on economics, Ray Kerrison on everything. Under Murdoch it returned to glory, maintaining far past the point of economic viability the wonderful old tradition of multiple editions, hard-hitting coverage, and prize-winning on-the-spot photography. Murdoch did much the same thing with the Boston Herald The Boston Herald is a tabloid format newspaper, though not a tabloid in the traditional sense, and is the smaller of the two big dailies in Boston, Massachusetts (the other being The Boston Globe). , turning it into a profitable paper that people read and take seriously, a viable alternative to the Boston Globe, whose name is synonymous throughout New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. with left-wing bias. (Especially notable are Herald columnists Howie Carr Howard Louis[1] "Howie" Carr (born January 17, 1952) is an American award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Background and Peter Lucas, and always, always Warren Brookes.) The Herald even took to reporting embarrassing things about the Kennedys--such as Teddy's drunken, rowdy, beached boat party, elsewhere covered up as usual. During the end-of-session budget crunch, Kennedy finally snuck snuck v. Usage Problem A past tense and a past participle of sneak. See Usage Note at sneak. through legislation forcing the sale of the Herald and the Post, or the television stations Murdoch owns in Boston and New York. Murdoch will retain the Herald, which will keep an even closer eye on Senator Kennedy, the would be paper-killer, but the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 has a new owner. His name is Peter S. Kalikow Peter S. Kalikow (b. December 1, 1942) is the present chairman of the Grand Central Partnership[1]S. Kalikow, having been appointed by New York Governor and fellow Republican George Pataki in 2001. Kalikow was reappointed in 2006 to serve a second term. , and he's a moderate-to-conservative realtor and philanthropist, who is committed to keeping the paper going--and keeping it conservative and lively. He will bring in as publisher Peter Price of Avenue, a glossy New York magazine, who is expected to cure the Post's advertising woes--which have worsened since Senator Kennedy moved to muzzle his critics. Mr. Murdoch's man, Executive Editor Frank Devine, is to stay on at least one year. The Post lives, Kennedy loses--happy day. |
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