Long time NYC's! Who Remembers the Liberal NY Post!? 👍

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# ATTENTION #
This is NOT a Myth, nor a Mirage!

With the columnists: Mary McGrory (gone too soon), Pete Hamill (read his novel 💖 "Forever"!), Jimmy Breslin, Murry Kempton (who vocabulary was above mine, and I was reading 4 grades higher than my level), and humoristic Art Buchwald. They helped feed my understanding of the wider world. (W'd get a he NYT's in our gifted kids class.)
Along with Radio's Barry Grays interviews with former JFK people, and those wanting RFK to run.

The main Editorial Cartoonist was Herblock.
I remember his Nixon dancing with The Dominoes (Theory) - Vietnam War related.

When I was a tween to mid late teens ('64 - 68+) my family read the NYDN, and the NYP.
I knew back then that the DN was more conservative. Obviously that changed later on.

[Straw Man]

1. I do, I do!

It was the 1960s. It was pre-Murdoch. It was when working-class Democrats were a thing.

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[secondwind]

3. I remember !!!!

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[Tomconroy]

4. Me! Read Pete Hamill's classic A Drinking Life.

It's all there.

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5. I think I have a copy some when I acquired a bunch of books

Loved Pete H

[Tomconroy]

7. It's an absolute classic.

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8. I know, I've heard for years.

[mgardener]

9. We grew up reading

The Long Island Press.

[nuxvomica]

10. I remember reading the "D.C. Wash" in the Daily News

I didn't understand most of it but it was just a collection of snippets about politicians so it was easy to digest and I thought the title letters printed on clothesline sheets was clever. My dad always bought the Daily News on Sundays after church because it had the best color comics.

[olegramps]

13. Coming home from church my anxious brother and I could not wait to read the comics.

Also listening to the programs on radio. The Shadow, FBI, Superman, etc., painted pictures in my mind when you had to relied on your imagination to create the scenes they described. Yes, it was a much more simpler time, perhaps naïve.

[Tomconroy]

17. The comics were the first thing to read in the paper.

OK. I admit it. There are a few I still read everyday.

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19. Nothing to "admit". 👍 Until the only store...

close by that carried the SDN stopped getting it - read the SDN for all kinds of stuff including a bunch of the comics.

I love good comics. 👍

[Voltaire2]

11. Breslin and Buchwald did not write for the NY Post.

[Tomconroy]

12. Could Buchwald have been syndicated there? Breslin

definitely the Daily News.

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20. I could be wrong 🙂 Maybe I just mushed them together

[Straw Man]

21. Buchwald's main affiliation was with the Washington Post ...

... but his online bio in Wiki says he was syndicated in over 500 papers. It doesn't list them.

[jaxexpat]

14. I remember the news about the Herald-Tribune closing down. Cronkite told me.

[Tomconroy]

16. The Herald Tribune was the paper my grandfather read.

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18. Heard/knew about it. Never read it.

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Leonard Schechter, sportswriter. . .

I was just a 'tween back then, but I remember him being the co-author of former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton's book Ball Four as well as several other books on sports.

I recall reading his book The Jocks: An Iconoclastic View Of Sports In America in my high school library.

Sadly, he passed on in 1974 from leukemia. He was only 47.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/20/archives/leonard-shecter-sportswriter-ball-four-co-author-is-dead-like-a.html