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I thought that the New York Times was always the respected, well-regarded, top-notch paper, but I was just reading something that astounded me - apparently up until around the 1960s, the winner was more likely the New York Herald Tribune. I gather that it went under largely due to a strike?
I remember the Herald Tribune, but don't remember if it was ever considered in the same league as The Times. Definitely not a rag like the Daily News or a commie rag like the Post were back then. Maybe in a working class sort of way the Tribune was on a par with the Times. Jimmy Breslin started there and remained there until it folded. Tom Wolfe also was a reporter there.
The Tribune went under along with the Journal American and the World Telegram. All three briefly merged, calling it the World Journal Tribune, in a desperate attempt to survive. It didn't last long and they are no more along with the New York Mirror, which strangely enough resembled the Daily News. I often wondered if they named it the Mirror because it looked like the News. The city went from 7 dailys to 3 almost overnight and I guess the unions did it.
Ah, when I saw the subject heading, I assumed you meant The Trib (actual title), a short-lived tabloid from the late 1970's...lasted maybe a year...I think they were related to the old Herald Tribune, corporately. Somewhere I have saved the last issue of The Trib. If I recall correctly, this issue featured a story about Vanessa Redgrave's controversial comments on Palestine at the Oscars, which would help date the issue.
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Long Island Press, which was bought by Newsday was another big paper.
Back in the 1960s/1970s there was a lot more Newspapers.
Even papers Like Post and Daily News has two sets morning and afternoon editions.
If you time travel back to October 19, 1987 the day of the huge Stock Market Crash AKA 'Black Monday", there are pictures of folks in Penn Station and Grand Central on way home from work Same Day reading about it at Newstands. They rushed out special same day late editions that covered the closing bell at 4pm.
Flash forward to 2016 you have to wait till following morning to read about something like that.
I think there was around 7 major papers and a few had afternoon editions.
I remember the Herald Tribune, but don't remember if it was ever considered in the same league as The Times. Definitely not a rag like the Daily News or a commie rag like the Post were back then.
When I lived in NYC (1968-70), The Herald Tribune was no longer published. Unlike the New York Times, the Trib was available mostly in the NYC metropolitan area, so never got a chance to read it.
The newspaper that I read at that time was the Post. In the late 60s, it had the best columnists anywhere: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Leonard Lyons, Earl Wilson, Max Lerner and others. The editorial writing of James A. Wechsler was superb. He was an early and constant critic of the Vietnam war. Maybe that's why "Taxi Guy" called it communist?
When I lived in NYC (1968-70), The Herald Tribune was no longer published. Unlike the New York Times, the Trib was available mostly in the NYC metropolitan area, so never got a chance to read it.
The newspaper that I read at that time was the Post. In the late 60s, it had the best columnists anywhere: Jimmy Breslin, Pete Hamill, Leonard Lyons, Earl Wilson, Max Lerner and others. The editorial writing of James A. Wechsler was superb. He was an early and constant critic of the Vietnam war. Maybe that's why "Taxi Guy" called it communist?
I might be wrong, but don't think Breslin ever worked at the Post. In the '70's Breslin was at the Daily News, then I think he went to Newsday for a while, and back to the Daily News. The others you mention were staples at the Post, but you left out the Publisher Dorothy Schiff. I know for a fact that at least one of those writers you mentioned called her Dorothy **** behind her back.
I called the Post a "commie rag" because that's what my father and many of his generation thought of the Post back then because it leaned to the left. Nothing to do with Vietnam, which hadn't happened yet. Everything to do with McCarthy. And Edward R. Murrow was a communist, too, back then. Today he would be a Muslim. Nothing ever really changes.
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