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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn anti-Trump tabloid pulls back
An anti-Trump tabloid pulls back
The New York Daily News, whose covers eviscerated Candidate Trump in 2016, is taking a different tack with President Trump.
By Joe Pompeo
03/09/17 05:05 AM EST
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-new-york-daily-news-coverage-235670
The New York Daily News fired off dozens of withering front pages last year opposing Donald Trumps candidacy. | Politico Illustration / Getty and New York Daily News
By Rich Lowry
For most of 2016, the New York Daily News was Americas paper of opposition to Donald Trump. But in the months since the election, just as Trumps war with the press started going nuclear, the Manhattan-based tabloid has largely pulled back on its famous anti-Trump covers in favor of a decidedly more measured tone.
The change followed a shakeup in editorial leadership just weeks before Nov. 8. The previous editor, Jim Rich, had been resisting pressure from management to soften the Trump covers, people familiar with the matter said. He was told they were diminishing an already much diminished print subscriber base, these people said, particularly among blue-collar readers in certain corners of New Yorks outer boroughs, where Trumps nationalistic populism apparently resonates in a way that is anathema to the citys cosmopolitan districts and immigrant enclaves.
After Rich stepped down on Oct. 18, his successor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, longtime News fixture Arthur Browne, made clear in a meeting with editors that he believed the papers front-page Trump coverage needed to take a different direction, sources familiar with the remarks told POLITICO. At times, he has described the earlier anti-Trumpism as an adventure, according to someone who heard the remark, suggesting that the adventure is over.
Now, many News staffers and alumni feel like the air has been sucked out of the room, and they are perhaps coming to terms with the notion that Trump is more popular with segments of their readership than they thought, even in deep blue New York. .................................
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An anti-Trump tabloid pulls back (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2017
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No. They are still against him, but are just playing the game like certain others. Don't worry
caroldansen
Mar 2017
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caroldansen
(725 posts)1. No. They are still against him, but are just playing the game like certain others. Don't worry
they still feel the same.