Murdoch’s horribly irresponsible tabloid is doomed - He (and it) won't be around forever

[DonViejo]

BY ALEX PAREENE

Last week was not a great week for the New York Post. But then again, not many weeks are. Its front page last Thursday wrongly identified two innocent young men as the bombers of the Boston Marathon. (It did so without explicitly referring to them as suspects, just to ensure that they wouldn’t lose a lawsuit or have to apologize.)

Murdoch defended his paper on Twitter, because it is 2013 and stuff is weird:

Rupert Murdoch ✔ @rupertmurdoch

All NYPost pics were those distributed by FBI. And instantly withdrawn when FBI changed directions.
9:36 AM - 20 Apr 2013

Hm. Here’s how Col Allan defended his story to Salon: “The image was emailed to law enforcement agencies yesterday afternoon seeking information about these men….” So “distributed by the FBI” might be technically accurate (not that we have any way of knowing) but it is not a great defense. The photos were not distributed to the press or to the public, as the photos of the Tsarnaev brothers would be the same day that Post cover ran. The photo was never intended to be put on the front of a newspaper with copy asserting that the people pictured were responsible. There’s also no way to “withdraw” a physical newspaper printed and distributed all over New York City. I saw copies of the paper at bodegas in Brooklyn well into the evening.

Murdoch (who has become shockingly respectable in his old age) loves his New York Post and he will always defend it.

As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the New York Post has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment. It is quite hard to get fired — or be forced to resign in disgrace — from the Post, for the crime of getting something disastrously wrong. No heads rolled when the paper reported in 2004, on the front page, that John Kerry had selected Dick Gephardt as his running mate. The paper even still prints the cartoons of Sean Delonas, a hateful,unfunny, repetitive cartoonist who invariably draws all gay people as mincing cross-dressers and who once plagiarized his own joke within two months of making it. In 2003 the Post published an editorial bemoaning a Yankees loss to the Red Sox the morning after the Yankees beat the Red Sox.

full article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/22/rupert_murdoch_stands_by_his_horribly_irresponsible_tabloid/

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. My eyes have been bulging w. incredulity since he bought the paper in the 70's...

... from the inveterately progressive Dorothy Schiff . ( et tu, Dorothy?)

And I was expecting his and its demise til around the mid 90's. Frankly, I thought NYers were too sophisticated to support such swill. I gave up waiting in or around '94-95.

30 years of laughably bad local gov't have cured me of that particular delusion.

Not so sophisticated.

[graham4anything]

2. Be afraid though if the Koch brothers buy all the Tribune papers inc.Orlando Sentinel