Reply #14: Yes. Some people are put off by its being a tabloid, and its working-class [View All]

[milkyway]

conservatism, but it's a very solid newspaper. It is what it is, and it does it quite well. It's as reliable as any mainstream source. Though it tilts right, it's not at all like the piece of shit New York Post, which treats its readers like idiots to be laughed at and led around by the nose.

The News might have the most leftwing columnist of the New York dailies in Juan Gonzalez (he hosts Democracy Now with Amy Goodman). The untimely death a few years ago of the late, great political columnist Lars Erik Nelson has left a void that can never be filled.

The News also has a fantastic pop/rock music critic in Jim Farber. He's been writing for the News for years, even though his biting critique of many mainstream acts infuriates a lot of the News mainstream readers. And, needless to say, the News' sports section is excellent (except for dickhead no-nothing NBA columnist Mitch Lawrence, and sometimes-dickhead, sometimes-excellent Mike Lupica).

In the 25 years I've lived in NYC, I have gone through a couple of periods of several years where I refused to read the Times (and I think I'm about to enter another one). I stopped reading the Post many years ago. But there hasn't been more than a few days in the last 25 years that I haven't picked up the News. It is a part of the permanent fabric of this city.