"Murders and shootings have declined but many New Yorkers say they feel unsane [sic]."
Of course they do - because aside from those two particular violent crimes, felony violence is way up the last few years. And that is even with woke DAs letting offenders skate with misdemeanors that really should be felonies, and hiding stats on what everyone under 18 is doing. You keep pretending the Post is making up this dramatic increase in violence and disorder, and they absolutely are not.
"When crime was historically low under de Blasio, the Post pretended there were crime waves anyway"
That is simply untrue, as the list of Post covers reflects.
"A large number of journalists now recognize the coverage of David Dinkins, the first Black mayor, was inordinately harsh and led directly to the rise of Rudy Giuliani."
Also not true. A lot of woke journalists like to *think* it was inordinately harsh, but they are wrong. This group includes people like John Eligon, who is a left-wing extremist pretending to be a Times journalist. His most recent article tries to argue the "Kill the Boer" song in South Africa doesn't actually mean anyone wants to kill Boers. Despite the fact that people are in fact killing Boers. But whatever, black good, white bad!
"if you want to find out about machinations in the City Council or a small-scale controversy in the public schools, the Post or maybe the News is your only real bet."
I'm so grateful for Chalkbeat New York covering our public schools, which no longer covered reliably by our daily newspapers.
Yes, Chalkbeat is good. I wanted to convey, among the daily newspapers, you can only really get consistent schools coverage out of the Post. And obviously that's going to have a pro-charter, anti-UFT slant.
Totally agree that with the decline of NYC dailies, we're dependent on the Post POV on a bunch of city issues - and their POV doesn't reflect my own leanings.
I still laugh at the Post hit piece on Kristen Gonzalez that attacked her for working at American Express, while being a socialist. A contradiction that only exists in the head of a right-wing tabloid.
"Murders and shootings have declined but many New Yorkers say they feel unsafe."
Of course they do. There are a few reasons. People on scooters, electric bikes, mopeds - all in the bike lanes and sidewalks, helmetless, going too fast, with no regard for people's safety. NYPD ignores anything it considers minor, and why should they lift a finger when the Laptop Park Slope class was screaming about "defund the police!!" not too long ago. I know a few rank and file NYPD (and MVPD for that matter), and one recently retired detective, and they are NOT hustling. You reap what you sow. The Park Slope Crowd, who get mentioned here quite often, must think that the rabble and their public servants have memories that go only a few months back.
"Murders and shootings" may have declined, but during the Dinkins administration they were at all time highs. The coverage wasn't inordinately harsh at all back then. It was quite mellow, seeing that there were over 2000 murders a year. Dinkins' answer? Hold a press conference on how he was going to crack down on ..... jaywalking. The press was restrained in its coverage, if anything.
"The Times, now the de facto national newspaper" implies that there was a time when it was _not_ the de facto national newspaper; if there was such a time it was fairly long ago, although you are certainly correct that the Times as an enterprise is both more concerned with and more dependent on its national footprint than even as little as 25 years ago; also competitors to the Times as a newspaper of record have faded badly, the Washington Post being I guess the last competitor standing? I think the (WDC) Post was on borrowed time for mindshare after going all in on Iraq 2.
I should have said "de facto national news publication" to be a bit more precise. There used to be a lot more national competition from Time, Newsweek, as well as regional papers that packed a lot of punch in their own markets. There are probably more NYT subscribers in SF today than there are Chronicle subscribers, but I bet that was not true in 1980.
Ah, then yes, I agree very strongly. I was taking "newspaper" too literally. Agreed about Time, Newsweek, etc., but then those were also weeklies, not dailies.
And yes, some of the regional metro newspapers like my local and rapidly Los Angeles Times*y made a serious effort at having national and international bureaus of their own until 2000 (when they were bought by The Tribune Company).
*your reference to the Chronicle makes me think that you remember that I am in Calif but not where; from what I can tell the last serious newspaper in the Bay Area was probably the San Jose Mercury. I did live in Norcal until 1982, and yes, you are probably right re Chronicle versus NYT subscribers in SF in 1980, although my memory (I was only 22 in 1980) was that the Chronicle was already considered something of a joke/nostalgia piece by then. Certainly not where you would look first for hard hitting local journalism.
In the June, 25 primary Adams will probably face a number of candidates from the left, with RCV he will probably prevail and in November a Republican on the right, if Dems prevail in 24 Mallistakis might run for Mayor again, Print media continues to fade, low voter turnout and large nonWhite voters give Adams the edge, then again the stench of scandal is never too far from Adams
It's not really right to categorize all non-European voters as reliable Democrats anymore, at least in NY politics - the Asian areas of NYC firmly flipped Republican in the most recent contests for both state & city offices, after a long-simmering trend in that direction.
Now, some would say that your statement remains true, because any group that votes Republican renders themselves "white" in so doing, but I would rather not wade into that territory...
In more time-sensitive news from the world outside The City - a Lesser Media War will be nationally aired tonight at 9. It's a little-publicized event called the Republican Party Presidential Debate.
Said event will also feature a bald black man with an eminently shiny head and a tough-on-crime attitude. He happens to be rising rapidly in early-primary-state polls, and he's now within striking distance of taking 2nd place from DeSantis less than two months from his campaign announcement - this debate is his first big national chance to make a splash, if you'd like a storyline to have in mind as you watch. Plus, no Trump! Are we suddenly back to politics as usual?
Fools we were! Cynthia Nixon is almost perfect. You just have to leave out the bit where she gets stuck washing Steve's skid marked undies, and *still* sticks around....my personal jump-the-shark moment after the change in writers - or should I say, jump-the-sh*t.
"Murders and shootings have declined but many New Yorkers say they feel unsane [sic]."
Of course they do - because aside from those two particular violent crimes, felony violence is way up the last few years. And that is even with woke DAs letting offenders skate with misdemeanors that really should be felonies, and hiding stats on what everyone under 18 is doing. You keep pretending the Post is making up this dramatic increase in violence and disorder, and they absolutely are not.
"When crime was historically low under de Blasio, the Post pretended there were crime waves anyway"
That is simply untrue, as the list of Post covers reflects.
"A large number of journalists now recognize the coverage of David Dinkins, the first Black mayor, was inordinately harsh and led directly to the rise of Rudy Giuliani."
Also not true. A lot of woke journalists like to *think* it was inordinately harsh, but they are wrong. This group includes people like John Eligon, who is a left-wing extremist pretending to be a Times journalist. His most recent article tries to argue the "Kill the Boer" song in South Africa doesn't actually mean anyone wants to kill Boers. Despite the fact that people are in fact killing Boers. But whatever, black good, white bad!
"if you want to find out about machinations in the City Council or a small-scale controversy in the public schools, the Post or maybe the News is your only real bet."
I'm so grateful for Chalkbeat New York covering our public schools, which no longer covered reliably by our daily newspapers.
Yes, Chalkbeat is good. I wanted to convey, among the daily newspapers, you can only really get consistent schools coverage out of the Post. And obviously that's going to have a pro-charter, anti-UFT slant.
Totally agree that with the decline of NYC dailies, we're dependent on the Post POV on a bunch of city issues - and their POV doesn't reflect my own leanings.
I still laugh at the Post hit piece on Kristen Gonzalez that attacked her for working at American Express, while being a socialist. A contradiction that only exists in the head of a right-wing tabloid.
"Murders and shootings have declined but many New Yorkers say they feel unsafe."
Of course they do. There are a few reasons. People on scooters, electric bikes, mopeds - all in the bike lanes and sidewalks, helmetless, going too fast, with no regard for people's safety. NYPD ignores anything it considers minor, and why should they lift a finger when the Laptop Park Slope class was screaming about "defund the police!!" not too long ago. I know a few rank and file NYPD (and MVPD for that matter), and one recently retired detective, and they are NOT hustling. You reap what you sow. The Park Slope Crowd, who get mentioned here quite often, must think that the rabble and their public servants have memories that go only a few months back.
"Murders and shootings" may have declined, but during the Dinkins administration they were at all time highs. The coverage wasn't inordinately harsh at all back then. It was quite mellow, seeing that there were over 2000 murders a year. Dinkins' answer? Hold a press conference on how he was going to crack down on ..... jaywalking. The press was restrained in its coverage, if anything.
"The Times, now the de facto national newspaper" implies that there was a time when it was _not_ the de facto national newspaper; if there was such a time it was fairly long ago, although you are certainly correct that the Times as an enterprise is both more concerned with and more dependent on its national footprint than even as little as 25 years ago; also competitors to the Times as a newspaper of record have faded badly, the Washington Post being I guess the last competitor standing? I think the (WDC) Post was on borrowed time for mindshare after going all in on Iraq 2.
I should have said "de facto national news publication" to be a bit more precise. There used to be a lot more national competition from Time, Newsweek, as well as regional papers that packed a lot of punch in their own markets. There are probably more NYT subscribers in SF today than there are Chronicle subscribers, but I bet that was not true in 1980.
Ah, then yes, I agree very strongly. I was taking "newspaper" too literally. Agreed about Time, Newsweek, etc., but then those were also weeklies, not dailies.
And yes, some of the regional metro newspapers like my local and rapidly Los Angeles Times*y made a serious effort at having national and international bureaus of their own until 2000 (when they were bought by The Tribune Company).
*your reference to the Chronicle makes me think that you remember that I am in Calif but not where; from what I can tell the last serious newspaper in the Bay Area was probably the San Jose Mercury. I did live in Norcal until 1982, and yes, you are probably right re Chronicle versus NYT subscribers in SF in 1980, although my memory (I was only 22 in 1980) was that the Chronicle was already considered something of a joke/nostalgia piece by then. Certainly not where you would look first for hard hitting local journalism.
In the June, 25 primary Adams will probably face a number of candidates from the left, with RCV he will probably prevail and in November a Republican on the right, if Dems prevail in 24 Mallistakis might run for Mayor again, Print media continues to fade, low voter turnout and large nonWhite voters give Adams the edge, then again the stench of scandal is never too far from Adams
It's not really right to categorize all non-European voters as reliable Democrats anymore, at least in NY politics - the Asian areas of NYC firmly flipped Republican in the most recent contests for both state & city offices, after a long-simmering trend in that direction.
Now, some would say that your statement remains true, because any group that votes Republican renders themselves "white" in so doing, but I would rather not wade into that territory...
In more time-sensitive news from the world outside The City - a Lesser Media War will be nationally aired tonight at 9. It's a little-publicized event called the Republican Party Presidential Debate.
Said event will also feature a bald black man with an eminently shiny head and a tough-on-crime attitude. He happens to be rising rapidly in early-primary-state polls, and he's now within striking distance of taking 2nd place from DeSantis less than two months from his campaign announcement - this debate is his first big national chance to make a splash, if you'd like a storyline to have in mind as you watch. Plus, no Trump! Are we suddenly back to politics as usual?
Fools we were! Cynthia Nixon is almost perfect. You just have to leave out the bit where she gets stuck washing Steve's skid marked undies, and *still* sticks around....my personal jump-the-shark moment after the change in writers - or should I say, jump-the-sh*t.
One of my better typos. It's been fixed!