New York Post

The New York Post is one of the oldest (and according to some definitions, the oldest) newspapers still published in the United States. It was founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801— as the New-York Evening Post, a broadsheet quite unlike today's tabloid. Early editorial work was done in the country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion. Hamilton chose for his first editor William Coleman, but the more famous 19th-century Evening Post editor was William Cullen Bryant, a strong Abolitionist. In 1881 Henry Villard took control of the Evening Post, which in 1897 passed to the management of his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, a founding member of both the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1933 the Post changed to tabloid format.Dorothy Schiff purchased the paper in 1939; her editor Ted Thackrey turned it into a streamlined tabloid format, then in 1977 was bought by Rupert Murdoch.

Criticisms

In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review called the Post "a force for evil." Many in mainstream journalism seem to feel that the Post allows its editorial positions to shape its story selection and news coverage to an unacceptable degree. As Steven D. Cuozzo, the Post executive editor, sees it, it was the Post that "broke the elitist media stranglehold on the national agenda." Post supporters cite a series of recent scandals at the supposedly-reputable broadsheet New York Times as proof that this problem is scarcely unique to the Post.

Related Topics:
1980 - Columbia Journalism Review - Editor - Elitist - Media - Scandal - Broadsheet - New York Times

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In addition, according to a survey conducted by Pace University in 2004, the New York Post was rated the least credible major news outlet in New York, and the only news outlet to receive more responses calling it "not credible" than credible (44% not credible to 39% credible). http://appserv.pace.edu/emplibrary/pace_poll_061604.pdf

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