New York Post: A lot is said these days about what one needs to do to incentivize readers in Our Postmodern Era to pick up a print newspaper, when they have so much news gawping into their eyes and ears from so many directions at once these days. But few of the hated forward-thinking media Read More
UPDATED FROM ORIGINAL: But I don't want to ruin the suspense either. So please read through to the bottom for some news!
The New York Post: Welcome back, holidaymakers! While we've been away the tabloids have been hard at it: there's been more swine flu and even a giant tiny scary terrorist plot! We will just Read More
New York Post: The thing about writing a column like this every day is that you realize, sometimes, the news does not move very fast. We've already talked quite a bit about the Astor trial, which takes up pretty much the entire front page of the Post today. Yesterday's testimony was the stuff we've been Read More
New York Daily News: Sometimes on a Monday you're on the elevator with a coworker and you're not sure what to say, so you say, "Do anything interesting this weekend?" And sometimes the person tells you, "Yes, I saw [insert movie name here]." So you say, "How was it?" And they only have a few Read More
New York Post: Let's start at the top, shall we? Umm. A guy with a jetpack seems to have propelled himself out of a diving plane and survived its crash. The picture looks a bit like a scene from a G.I. Joe cartoon show: Drat, Destro got away again! "Great escape" reads the copy, in Read More
New York Post: "PIGGY BACK!" Yes, the swine flu seems to be back with a vengeance in Northeastern Queens, where late yesterday afternoon the city shut three schools down after clusters of illness suggested prevalent swine flu among students and faculty. Over 1,500 students are now without anyplace to go for the next five days, Read More
New York Post: If you hadn't been following yesterday's National Transportation Safety Board hearings into the crash of Continental Flight 3407 outside Buffalo, in which all 49 people on board and one on the ground died, you'd be looking for a place to read the transcripts that were released there of the conversation in the Read More
Daily News: The problem with taking on a crusade in a daily newspaper is that every cover placement you give an article in the series has to warrant that placement, or else you risk losing your audience: people don't like to feel like an important story is being milked. Today the Daily News fronts the Read More
New York Post: The trial of 84-year-old Anthony Marshall, son of the late great socialite and heiress Brooke Astor, has all the elements of a Trial of the Century: Every Monday through Thursday, muckraking journalists, the sliver of obsessed public, and various luminaries of the Manhattan social and charity circuit pack the lower Manhattan Read More
Daily News: These days, a lot of time is spent trying to figure out how to "save" newspapers; can something that prints at a printer and then is delivered to a newsstand hours after the thing is "closed," to be purchased for money, really be relevant in the 24-hour instant-news cycle? Or something like that. Read More
Daily News: Here are two sentences about something that happened yesterday in Jamaica, Queens: A cow escaped from a slaughterhouse and ran through a residential neighborhood. Police chased it into a backyard where they stunned the animal and then brought in animal control to take the cow away. Actually, here is a third: The cow Read More
New York Post: It's happened before: Vanity Fair breaks some news, and the New York Post floods the non-Vanity Fair demographic with all the goods. This morning it's accused Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff's secretary sounding off on what the guy was like before he got all lethargic and doughy. That apparently happened when the F.B.I. and Read More
Daily News: It's hard to write a column about a headline that uses symbols. The top of today's Daily News properly reads only: "TREK." But there are five stars above it. So, it's sort of like "[Five Stars] TREK." Get it? Generally in the mornings we look closely at both front pages before coffee, then Read More
Daily News: Wow. It looks like the News got its hands on Sports Illustrated reporter Selena Roberts' long anticipated book about Alex Rodriguez. You'll remember Ms. Roberts as the reporter who broke the story in February that a few years ago, in an anonymous, voluntary test, Mr. Rodriguez had “tested positive for two anabolic steroids” Read More
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New York Post: The first great big summer blockbuster is here! And though this morning is a little springy for it, Lou Lumenick was getting pretty Read More
