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liberalnarb

(4,532 posts) Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:16 AM Aug 2016

The NY Daily News endorsed Rmoney in 2012??

I wasn't an NY Daily News reader in 2012 but when I was surfing the Internet earlier today I came across a NY daily news front page endorsing The Mitt Twit himself. Is it real?

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The NY Daily News endorsed Rmoney in 2012?? (Original Post) liberalnarb Aug 2016 OP

Yes. Drunken Irishman Aug 2016 #1

The News has been right-wing until recently shenmue Aug 2016 #2

Yes, years ago the News was the rightwing tabloid while... TreasonousBastard Aug 2016 #3

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)

1. Yes.

Reply to liberalnarb (Original post)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:53 AM

Aug 2016

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

2. The News has been right-wing until recently

Reply to liberalnarb (Original post)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 01:05 AM

Aug 2016

It's only with Trump that they changed.

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

3. Yes, years ago the News was the rightwing tabloid while...

Reply to liberalnarb (Original post)

Mon Aug 15, 2016, 05:46 AM

Aug 2016

(get this) the Post was the lefty wing tabloid. The Post was actually a respectable afternoon paper back then when Dorothy Schiff owned it. There was another morning tabloid, the Mirror, which didn't really amount to much. And Hearst's broadsheet Journal-American headed up the right in the evening.

Murdoch bought the Post and turned it rightwing, losing a bundle in the process, while I'm not sure just what happened at the News, I suspect they were simply out-Murdoched and started looking for any headlines that sold. The Mirror and Journal-American disappeared in ignominy.

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