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It used to be a great newspaper with columnists like Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin . There was a huge TV and movie section with reviews and interviews every day . I think this was when Newsday was only five or ten cents so guess that was kind of a while ago. There are no more columnists really , not in the op ed section anyway .
I used to love reading Marvin Kitman's reviews.
I had a Newsday route in the 70's, my brothers and I had the whole neighborhood. I remember daily and Sunday was 90 cents and you were tipped a dime for the week.
They have done an excellent job exposing corruption over the years in the police department, school districts and politicians. I recall Sydney Shanberg writing about the Nassau Coliseum and Al D'amato, more recently Sandra Peddie and Joy Brown. The Roosvelt Raceway debacle up through Mangano, Cuomo and Skelos and they more recently had an award winning series on Red Lining by real estate companies.
Great paper for the local news.
I forgot who the columnist that did the weekly columns on human interest stories on LI with the handle bar mustache, Ed Lowe.
I had a Newsday route in the 70's, my brothers and I had the whole neighborhood. I remember daily and Sunday was 90 cents and you were tipped a dime for the week.
I did too, and I KNOW certain people would avoid me when I came to ‘collect’ with that little green book we got.
Years ago, I remember working with a guy who always complained about Newsday. I suggested he try the Daily News or the Post. He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "that's a city paper, no way!"
I had a Newsday route in the 70's, my brothers and I had the whole neighborhood. I remember daily and Sunday was 90 cents and you were tipped a dime for the week.
Jeez haven't heard that name in years, apparently, he is still alive.
I had a Newsday route in the 70's, my brothers and I had the whole neighborhood. I remember daily and Sunday was 90 cents and you were tipped a dime for the week.
I don't consider any mainstream sources to be good or reliable, including the so-called "right wing" ones. These are the same people who told us we needed to send 100 billion dollars to Ukraine while paying $5 a gallon for gas. Develop a network of your own reliable sources.
This is a George Will column based on reading an article in the NY Post when Kempton worked for the NY Post.
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Arriving in the splendor of Grand Central Terminal, I plunked down a nickel for a New York tabloid in order to see what was going on in Gotham. This purchase of a New York Post was a life-changing event because in it I found a column by Murray Kempton.
I do not remember what his subject was that day, but his subjects generally were of secondary importance to his style, which reflected his refined mind and his penchant for understated passion, mordantly expressed. Here, for example, is a sentence from his October 1956 report on President Dwight David Eisenhower campaigning for reelection:
In Miami he had walked carefully by the harsher realities, speaking some 20 feet from an airport drinking fountain labeled “Colored” and saying that the condition it represented was more amenable to solution by the hearts of men than by laws, and complimenting Florida as “typical today of what is best in America,” a verdict which might seem to some contingent on finding out what happened to the Negro snatched from the Wildwood jail Sunday.
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