New York Times profile of New York Post's Fred Dicker includes footage of Dicker getting assaulted. Classic NY moment. [CBS6Albany.com]
Trump: Media can't believe Trump wants to get off birther issue. [Chris Matthews]
Trump: Greta van Susteren won't ask Trump about it. [FoxNews.com]
Trump: Birther issue is coded racism. [Fareed Zakaria] Read More
New York Post State Editor Fred Dicker gets profiled on the front page of the New York Times this morning. Dicker declined to participate in the interview, but on his radio show, said he thought there were a few errors, but overall, it was fair, and not Read More
2012: Poll shows "abrupt change in attitude" with voters; two year low. [Jim Rutenberg and Megan Thee-Brenan]
2012: The poll. [New York Times]
Media: Unnamed source said Cuomo compared his dealing with Fred Dicker to feeding a caged animal. Dicker declined to participate in the profile. Writing the NY Post a huge Read More
Donald Trump shot down a report claiming he would announce his candidacy on the final episode of his show, The Apprentice, on May 15.
"I can't announce during the show, I really can't" and "I'm not allowed to" he said, during an interview on Talk1300. "I don't know where it came from."
But Read More
It's hard not paying attention when New York Post State Editor Fred Dicker speaks, which he does each day from 10 to 11 a.m. on his radio show.
Some highlights from today's show:
Dicker said the state budget "would have been an early budget if it wasn't for the Assembly Read More
Buried in the New York Post's exultant coverage of Andrew Cuomo's on-time budget agreement with the Legislature in Albany was a remarkable, easily missable tribute to a governor whom the Post, in general, likes somewhat less.
Despite a "dismal" record in office, David Paterson (along with another predecessor, George Pataki) "helped blaze the path that Read More
Just before signing off his show today, New York Post State Editor Fred Dicker threw cold water on one of Andrew Cuomo's stated goals for this legislative year.
After rattling of a list of Cuomo's goals, Dicker said, "The governor is also committed to same-sex marriage, but there is little I think he can do about Read More
State Budget: Confessore has deja vu. [Twitter]
State Budget: Bloomberg's "outrage" makes the headline. [El Diario]
State Budget: Expecting to collect cigarette taxes from Indian reservations, which is tricky. [Frank Parlato, Jr.]
State Budget: Pain for schools, despite being on-time, or early. [Jimmy Vielkind]
State Budget: $15 million in state funds Read More
New York Post state editor Fred Dicker doesn't think much of public radio host and newspaper publisher Alan Chartock, who yesterday accused Dicker of having an unholy alliance with the governor in some kind of agreement that included Dicker's publisher, Rupert Murdoch.
"Chartock laid out a conspiracy theory so far-fetched it makes Glenn Beck Read More
More about one of the most important relationships in Albany, between the hard-charging Governor Andrew Cuomo and indomitable New York Post state editor Fred Dicker.
Upstate radio host and publisher Alan Chartock warned "[Cuomo] knows that sooner or later, and I know he knows this, don’t ask me how there’s certain privileged communication here, Read More
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Some daylight is emerging between Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Post State Editor Fred Dicker - undoubtedly one of the most important voices in Albany.
The critique arose in response to how Cuomo reacted to news that two Democratic lawmakers were swept up in a corruption and bribery probe from the US Attorney Read More
In case Fred Dicker's objections to Bloomberg's Albany strategy weren't clear enough, he said on his radio show this morning, "who the heck is a mayor, any mayor, to tell the governor that he wants something to be part of the budget? How presumptious can you be?"
Bloomberg has pressed Governor Cuomo to put the Read More
On his radio show this morning, New York Post editor Fred Dicker didn't think much of the New York Times story today on Sheldon Silver:
"Check out a story that's in The Times today about Speaker Silver and the millionaire's tax. This is one of the most egregiously flawed stories I've ever seen. Here Read More
Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo spoke to Fred Dicker on his radio show this morning, and offered a few more details about how he hopes to curb the influence of "special interests" in Albany.
In talking about his visit to Tryon Detention Center, a juvenile detention center that currently employs 30 people but holds no juveniles, Cuomo said Read More
