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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the Illustrated Daily News.

Daily News
New York's Hometown Newspaper
June 24, 2021 cover
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Owner(s)Daily News Enterprises
EditorAndrew Julien (interim)[1]
FoundedJune 24, 1919; 104 years ago (1919-06-24) (as Illustrated Daily News)
Political alignmentPopulist[2][3]
Headquarters125 Theodore Conrad Drive, Jersey City, NJ 07305
CountryUnited States
Circulation45,730 average print circulation[4]
ISSN2692-1251
OCLC number9541172
Websitewww.nydailynews.com

It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies a day. As of 2019, it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. Today's Daily News is not connected to the earlier New York Daily News, which shut down in 1906.

The Daily News is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing. This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021.[5][6][7][8][9] After the Alden acquisition, alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing, the Daily News property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises.[10]

History edit

Illustrated Daily News edit

 
Wife of President-elect Warren G. Harding on cover of the Daily News (February 5, 1921, front page)

The Illustrated Daily News was founded by Patterson and his cousin, Robert R. McCormick. The two were co-publishers of the Chicago Tribune and grandsons of Tribune Company founder Joseph Medill.[11] as an imitation of the successful British newspaper Daily Mirror. When Patterson and McCormick could not agree on the editorial content of the Chicago paper, the two cousins decided at a meeting in Paris that Patterson would work on the project of launching a Tribune-owned newspaper in New York. On his return, Patterson met with Alfred Harmsworth, who was the Viscount Northcliffe and publisher of the Daily Mirror, London's tabloid newspaper. Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid, Patterson launched the Daily News on June 24, 1919, as Illustrated Daily News.[11] The Daily News was owned by the Tribune Company until 1993.[12]

Daily News edit

The Daily News was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625.[11] Still, New York's many subway commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew. By the time of the paper's first anniversary in June 1920, circulation had climbed over 100,000 and by 1925, over a million. Circulation reached its peak in 1947, at 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday.[13][14]

The Daily News carried the slogan "New York's Picture Newspaper" from 1920 to 1991, for its emphasis on photographs. A camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one.[15] It became one of the first newspapers in New York City to employ a woman as a staff photographer, in 1942, when Evelyn Straus was hired.[16][17]: 8, 31–32  The paper's later slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is "New York's Hometown Newspaper", while another has been "The Eyes, the Ears, the Honest Voice of New York". The Daily News continues to include large and prominent photographs, for news, entertainment and sports, as well as intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip, classified ads, comics, a sports section, and an opinion section.

News-gathering operations were, for a time, organized by staff using two-way radios operating on 173.3250 MHz (radio station KEA 871), allowing the assignment desk to communicate with its reporters who used a fleet of "radio cars". Excelling in sports coverage, prominent sports cartoonists have included Bill Gallo, Bruce Stark and Ed Murawinski. Columnists have included Walter Kaner. Editorial cartoonists have included C. D. Batchelor.

In 1948, the News established WPIX (Channel 11 in New York City), whose call letters were based on the News's nickname of "New York's Picture Newspaper"; and later bought what became WPIX-FM, which is now known as WFAN-FM. The television station became a Tribune property outright in 1991, and remains in the former Daily News Building. The radio station was purchased by Emmis Communications, and since 2014 has been owned by CBS Radio as an FM simulcast of its AM namesake.

The paper briefly published a Monday-Friday afternoon counterpart, Daily News Tonight, between August 19, 1980, and August 28, 1981;[18] this competed with the New York Post, which had launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper in 1978.[19] Occasional "P.M. Editions" were published as extras in 1991, during the brief tenure of Robert Maxwell as publisher.[20]

From August 10, 1978, to November 5, 1978, the multi-union 1978 New York City newspaper strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers. No editions of the News were printed during this time.[21]

In 1982, and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the Daily News almost went out of business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale. In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the News to help it stay in business. Upon his death later that year, the News seceded from his publishing empire which soon splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it. Existing management, led by editor James Willse, held the News together in bankruptcy; Willse became interim publisher after buying the paper from the Tribune Company. Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993.[12]

The News at one time maintained local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. The newspaper still shares offices at City Hall, and within One Police Plaza with other news agencies.

In January 2012, former News of the World and New York Post editor Colin Myler was appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily News.[22] Myler was replaced by his deputy Jim Rich in September 2015.[23]

As of May 2016, it was the ninth-most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States.[24] In 2019, it was ranked eleventh.[25]

On September 4, 2017, Tronc (now, Tribune Publishing), the publishing operations of the former Tribune Company (which had spun out its publishing assets to separate them from its broadcast assets), announced that it had acquired the Daily News.[26] Tronc had bought the Daily News for $1, assuming "operational and pension liabilities". By the time of purchase, circulation had dropped to 200,000 on weekdays and 260,000 on Sundays.[27] In July 2018, Tronc fired half of the paper's editorial staff, including the editor-in-chief, Jim Rich. Rich was replaced by Robert York, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tronc-owned The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[28] The paper's social media staff were included in the cut; images and memes that were later deleted were posted on its Twitter feed.[29][30]

Its parent, Tribune Publishing, was acquired by Alden Global Capital in May 2021. In September 2021, editor Robert York left and was replaced on an interim basis by Andrew Julien, who also serves as the editor and publisher of The Hartford Courant.[1]

They also printed a Sunday edition called, Sunday News.

Editorial stance and style edit

The New York Times journalist Alan Feuer said the Daily News focuses heavily on "deep sourcing and doorstep reporting", providing city-centered "crime reportage and hard-hitting coverage of public issues [...] rather than portraying New York through the partisan divide between liberals and conservatives".[31] According to Feuer, the paper is known for "speaking to and for the city's working class" and for "its crusades against municipal misconduct".[31]

The New York Times has described the Daily News's editorial stance as "flexibly centrist"[31] with a "high-minded, if populist, legacy".[32] . In contrast to its sister publication, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily News was pro-Roosevelt, endorsing him in 1932, 1936, and 1940. It broke from the president, however, in 1941 over foreign policy. [33] From the 1940s through the 1960s, the Daily News espoused conservative populism.[34] By the mid-1970s however, it began shifting its stance, and during the 1990s, it gained a reputation as a moderately liberal alternative to the right-wing Post (which until 1980 had been a Democratic bastion).

The newspaper endorsed Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election,[35] Democrat Barack Obama in 2008,[36] Republican Mitt Romney in 2012,[37] Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016,[38] and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.[39]

Headquarters edit

 
Daily News Building, John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, architects, rendering by Hugh Ferriss. The building housed the paper until the mid-1990s.

From its founding, it was based at 25 City Hall Place, just north of City Hall, and close to Park Row, the traditional home of the city's newspaper trade. In 1921 it moved to 23 Park Place, which was in the same neighborhood. The cramped conditions demanded a much larger space for the growing newspaper.[40]

From 1929 to 1995, the Daily News was based in 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, an official city and national landmark designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood.[40] The paper moved to 450 West 33rd Street (also known as 5 Manhattan West) in 1995, but the 42nd Street location is still known as The News Building and still features a giant globe and weather instruments in its lobby. (It was the model for the Daily Planet building of the first two Superman films). The former News subsidiary WPIX-TV remains in the building.

The subsequent headquarters of the Daily News at 450 West 33rd Street straddled the railroad tracks going into Pennsylvania Station. The building is now the world headquarters of the Associated Press and is part of Manhattan West.

 
Map of New York Daily News building and garage about 1955

In June 2011, the paper moved its operations to two floors at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan.[41] Sixteen months later, the structure was severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable by flooding from Hurricane Sandy. In the immediate aftermath, news operations were conducted remotely from several temporary locations, eventually moving to office space at the Jersey City printing plant.[42] In early 2013, operations moved to rented space at 1290 Avenue of the Americas near Rockefeller Center—just four blocks north of its rival New York Post. The staff returned to the permanent 4 New York Plaza location in early November 2013. In August 2020, the Daily News closed its Manhattan headquarters.[43]

Printing facilities edit

In 1993, the Daily News consolidated its printing facilities near Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.[44][45]

In 2009, the paper spent $150 million on printing presses as part of its change to full-color photographs.[46][47]

In 2011, the company spent $100 million to buy three new presses, using a $41.7 million Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit from the State of New Jersey.[48]

In 2022, the company plans to close its Jersey City printing plant and outsource its printing operations to North Jersey Media Group.[49]

Pulitzer Prizes edit

The Daily News has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes.[50]

In 1998, Daily News columnist Mike McAlary won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his multi-part series of columns (published in 1997) on Abner Louima, who was sodomized and tortured by New York City police officers.[51]

In 2007, the News' editorial board, which comprised Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub, and Heidi Evans,[52] won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of thirteen editorials, published over five months, that detailed how more than 12,000 rescue workers who responded after the September 11 attacks had become ill from toxins in the air.[53] The Pulitzer citation said that the award was given to the paper "for its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers, whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation."[53]

In 2017, the Daily News was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in collaboration with non-profit ProPublica "for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities."[54]

Noteworthy front pages edit

In 1928, a News reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in the electric chair.[55] The next day's newspaper carried the headline "DEAD!".

On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York City from bankruptcy. The front page of the October 30, 1975 Daily News read: "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD".[56] Ford later said the headline had played a role in his losing the 1976 presidential election.[57]

On November 16, 1995, the Daily News front page displayed an illustration of Newt Gingrich as a baby in a diaper with the headline "Crybaby" following revelations that Gingrich had shut down the government in retaliation for a perceived snub from Bill Clinton aboard Air Force One.[58]

In the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the paper's headlines became more provocative, helping to rejuvenate it, and with more opinionated editorials with the aforementioned headlines, once again in an effort to demonstrate its place in the city's media.[59]

Following the 2015 San Bernardino shooting, in which 14 people were killed, the paper's front page displayed "GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS" along with tweets from Republican politicians offering thoughts and prayers.[60] The paper advocated for tighter gun laws, condemning what it described as "empty platitudes and angry rhetoric" rather than action "in response to the ongoing plague of gun violence in our country."[60][61] The provocative headline[60][61] received both praise and criticism.[62]

In January 2016, after Republican senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz of Texas disparaged "New York values" in a Republican primary debate, the News responded with a cover page headline reading "DROP DEAD, TED" and showing the Statue of Liberty giving the middle finger.[63]

Controversies edit

The Daily News supported the Iraq War.[64] On March 14, 2003, six days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Daily News reported "President Bush is targeting an aggressive, dangerous, psychotic dictator who has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and would use them without compunction. ... With Saddam in power, there can be no peace. One argument you hear raised against war is fear of retaliation: America mustn't upset the terrorists. After 9/11, does this even need to be rebutted? Terrorists have killed thousands of Americans already and thirst for more. Fighting back is a necessity, unless people want the peace of the grave."[65]

On December 20, 2016, Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman compared the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, to the assassination of Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Jewish student Herschel Grynszpan, saying "justice has been served."[66] Russia has demanded an official apology from Daily News.[citation needed]

Since 2018, Daily News has been preventing internet users in the European Union from accessing its website, on grounds of missing data protection compliance.[67][68][69]

See also edit

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For the newspaper published between 1855 and 1906 see New York Daily News 19th century The New York Daily News officially titled the Daily News is an American newspaper based in Jersey City New Jersey It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the Illustrated Daily News Daily NewsNew York s Hometown NewspaperJune 24 2021 coverTypeDaily newspaperFormatTabloidOwner s Daily News EnterprisesEditorAndrew Julien interim 1 FoundedJune 24 1919 104 years ago 1919 06 24 as Illustrated Daily News Political alignmentPopulist 2 3 Headquarters125 Theodore Conrad Drive Jersey City NJ 07305CountryUnited StatesCirculation45 730 average print circulation 4 ISSN2692 1251OCLC number9541172Websitewww wbr nydailynews wbr comMedia of the United StatesList of newspapersIt was the first U S daily printed in tabloid format It reached its peak circulation in 1947 at 2 4 million copies a day As of 2019 update it was the eleventh highest circulated newspaper in the United States Today s Daily News is not connected to the earlier New York Daily News which shut down in 1906 The Daily News is owned by parent company Tribune Publishing This company was acquired by Alden Global Capital which operates its media properties through Digital First Media in May 2021 5 6 7 8 9 After the Alden acquisition alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing the Daily News property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises 10 Contents 1 History 1 1 Illustrated Daily News 1 2 Daily News 2 Editorial stance and style 3 Headquarters 4 Printing facilities 5 Pulitzer Prizes 6 Noteworthy front pages 7 Controversies 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistory editIllustrated Daily News edit Not to be confused with Illustrated Daily News published in Los Angeles as a precursor of the Los Angeles Mirror and eventually the Los Angeles Times nbsp Wife of President elect Warren G Harding on cover of the Daily News February 5 1921 front page The Illustrated Daily News was founded by Patterson and his cousin Robert R McCormick The two were co publishers of the Chicago Tribune and grandsons of Tribune Company founder Joseph Medill 11 as an imitation of the successful British newspaper Daily Mirror When Patterson and McCormick could not agree on the editorial content of the Chicago paper the two cousins decided at a meeting in Paris that Patterson would work on the project of launching a Tribune owned newspaper in New York On his return Patterson met with Alfred Harmsworth who was the Viscount Northcliffe and publisher of the Daily Mirror London s tabloid newspaper Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid Patterson launched the Daily News on June 24 1919 as Illustrated Daily News 11 The Daily News was owned by the Tribune Company until 1993 12 Daily News edit The Daily News was not an immediate success and by August 1919 the paper s circulation had dropped to 26 625 11 Still New York s many subway commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle and readership steadily grew By the time of the paper s first anniversary in June 1920 circulation had climbed over 100 000 and by 1925 over a million Circulation reached its peak in 1947 at 2 4 million daily and 4 7 million on Sunday 13 14 The Daily News carried the slogan New York s Picture Newspaper from 1920 to 1991 for its emphasis on photographs A camera has been part of the newspaper s logo from day one 15 It became one of the first newspapers in New York City to employ a woman as a staff photographer in 1942 when Evelyn Straus was hired 16 17 8 31 32 The paper s later slogan developed from a 1985 ad campaign is New York s Hometown Newspaper while another has been The Eyes the Ears the Honest Voice of New York The Daily News continues to include large and prominent photographs for news entertainment and sports as well as intense city news coverage celebrity gossip classified ads comics a sports section and an opinion section News gathering operations were for a time organized by staff using two way radios operating on 173 3250 MHz radio station KEA 871 allowing the assignment desk to communicate with its reporters who used a fleet of radio cars Excelling in sports coverage prominent sports cartoonists have included Bill Gallo Bruce Stark and Ed Murawinski Columnists have included Walter Kaner Editorial cartoonists have included C D Batchelor In 1948 the News established WPIX Channel 11 in New York City whose call letters were based on the News s nickname of New York s Picture Newspaper and later bought what became WPIX FM which is now known as WFAN FM The television station became a Tribune property outright in 1991 and remains in the former Daily News Building The radio station was purchased by Emmis Communications and since 2014 has been owned by CBS Radio as an FM simulcast of its AM namesake The paper briefly published a Monday Friday afternoon counterpart Daily News Tonight between August 19 1980 and August 28 1981 18 this competed with the New York Post which had launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper in 1978 19 Occasional P M Editions were published as extras in 1991 during the brief tenure of Robert Maxwell as publisher 20 From August 10 1978 to November 5 1978 the multi union 1978 New York City newspaper strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers No editions of the News were printed during this time 21 In 1982 and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike the Daily News almost went out of business In the 1982 instance the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale In 1991 millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the News to help it stay in business Upon his death later that year the News seceded from his publishing empire which soon splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it Existing management led by editor James Willse held the News together in bankruptcy Willse became interim publisher after buying the paper from the Tribune Company Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993 12 The News at one time maintained local bureaus in the Bronx Brooklyn and Queens The newspaper still shares offices at City Hall and within One Police Plaza with other news agencies In January 2012 former News of the World and New York Post editor Colin Myler was appointed editor in chief of the Daily News 22 Myler was replaced by his deputy Jim Rich in September 2015 23 As of May 2016 update it was the ninth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States 24 In 2019 it was ranked eleventh 25 On September 4 2017 Tronc now Tribune Publishing the publishing operations of the former Tribune Company which had spun out its publishing assets to separate them from its broadcast assets announced that it had acquired the Daily News 26 Tronc had bought the Daily News for 1 assuming operational and pension liabilities By the time of purchase circulation had dropped to 200 000 on weekdays and 260 000 on Sundays 27 In July 2018 Tronc fired half of the paper s editorial staff including the editor in chief Jim Rich Rich was replaced by Robert York Publisher and Editor in Chief of Tronc owned The Morning Call in Allentown Pennsylvania 28 The paper s social media staff were included in the cut images and memes that were later deleted were posted on its Twitter feed 29 30 Its parent Tribune Publishing was acquired by Alden Global Capital in May 2021 In September 2021 editor Robert York left and was replaced on an interim basis by Andrew Julien who also serves as the editor and publisher of The Hartford Courant 1 They also printed a Sunday edition called Sunday News Editorial stance and style editThe New York Times journalist Alan Feuer said the Daily News focuses heavily on deep sourcing and doorstep reporting providing city centered crime reportage and hard hitting coverage of public issues rather than portraying New York through the partisan divide between liberals and conservatives 31 According to Feuer the paper is known for speaking to and for the city s working class and for its crusades against municipal misconduct 31 The New York Times has described the Daily News s editorial stance as flexibly centrist 31 with a high minded if populist legacy 32 In contrast to its sister publication the Chicago Tribune the Daily News was pro Roosevelt endorsing him in 1932 1936 and 1940 It broke from the president however in 1941 over foreign policy 33 From the 1940s through the 1960s the Daily News espoused conservative populism 34 By the mid 1970s however it began shifting its stance and during the 1990s it gained a reputation as a moderately liberal alternative to the right wing Post which until 1980 had been a Democratic bastion The newspaper endorsed Republican George W Bush in the 2004 presidential election 35 Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 36 Republican Mitt Romney in 2012 37 Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 38 and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 39 Headquarters edit nbsp Daily News Building John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood architects rendering by Hugh Ferriss The building housed the paper until the mid 1990s From its founding it was based at 25 City Hall Place just north of City Hall and close to Park Row the traditional home of the city s newspaper trade In 1921 it moved to 23 Park Place which was in the same neighborhood The cramped conditions demanded a much larger space for the growing newspaper 40 From 1929 to 1995 the Daily News was based in 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue an official city and national landmark designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood 40 The paper moved to 450 West 33rd Street also known as 5 Manhattan West in 1995 but the 42nd Street location is still known as The News Building and still features a giant globe and weather instruments in its lobby It was the model for the Daily Planet building of the first two Superman films The former News subsidiary WPIX TV remains in the building The subsequent headquarters of the Daily News at 450 West 33rd Street straddled the railroad tracks going into Pennsylvania Station The building is now the world headquarters of the Associated Press and is part of Manhattan West nbsp Map of New York Daily News building and garage about 1955In June 2011 the paper moved its operations to two floors at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan 41 Sixteen months later the structure was severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable by flooding from Hurricane Sandy In the immediate aftermath news operations were conducted remotely from several temporary locations eventually moving to office space at the Jersey City printing plant 42 In early 2013 operations moved to rented space at 1290 Avenue of the Americas near Rockefeller Center just four blocks north of its rival New York Post The staff returned to the permanent 4 New York Plaza location in early November 2013 In August 2020 the Daily News closed its Manhattan headquarters 43 Printing facilities editIn 1993 the Daily News consolidated its printing facilities near Liberty State Park in Jersey City New Jersey 44 45 In 2009 the paper spent 150 million on printing presses as part of its change to full color photographs 46 47 In 2011 the company spent 100 million to buy three new presses using a 41 7 million Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit from the State of New Jersey 48 In 2022 the company plans to close its Jersey City printing plant and outsource its printing operations to North Jersey Media Group 49 Pulitzer Prizes editThe Daily News has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes 50 In 1998 Daily News columnist Mike McAlary won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his multi part series of columns published in 1997 on Abner Louima who was sodomized and tortured by New York City police officers 51 In 2007 the News editorial board which comprised Arthur Browne Beverly Weintraub and Heidi Evans 52 won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of thirteen editorials published over five months that detailed how more than 12 000 rescue workers who responded after the September 11 attacks had become ill from toxins in the air 53 The Pulitzer citation said that the award was given to the paper for its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation 53 In 2017 the Daily News was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in collaboration with non profit ProPublica for uncovering primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people most of them poor minorities 54 Noteworthy front pages editIn 1928 a News reporter strapped a small camera to his leg and shot a photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in the electric chair 55 The next day s newspaper carried the headline DEAD On October 29 1975 President Gerald Ford gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York City from bankruptcy The front page of the October 30 1975 Daily News read FORD TO CITY DROP DEAD 56 Ford later said the headline had played a role in his losing the 1976 presidential election 57 On November 16 1995 the Daily News front page displayed an illustration of Newt Gingrich as a baby in a diaper with the headline Crybaby following revelations that Gingrich had shut down the government in retaliation for a perceived snub from Bill Clinton aboard Air Force One 58 In the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election the paper s headlines became more provocative helping to rejuvenate it and with more opinionated editorials with the aforementioned headlines once again in an effort to demonstrate its place in the city s media 59 Following the 2015 San Bernardino shooting in which 14 people were killed the paper s front page displayed GOD ISN T FIXING THIS along with tweets from Republican politicians offering thoughts and prayers 60 The paper advocated for tighter gun laws condemning what it described as empty platitudes and angry rhetoric rather than action in response to the ongoing plague of gun violence in our country 60 61 The provocative headline 60 61 received both praise and criticism 62 In January 2016 after Republican senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz of Texas disparaged New York values in a Republican primary debate the News responded with a cover page headline reading DROP DEAD TED and showing the Statue of Liberty giving the middle finger 63 Controversies editThe Daily News supported the Iraq War 64 On March 14 2003 six days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq the Daily News reported President Bush is targeting an aggressive dangerous psychotic dictator who has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and would use them without compunction With Saddam in power there can be no peace One argument you hear raised against war is fear of retaliation America mustn t upset the terrorists After 9 11 does this even need to be rebutted Terrorists have killed thousands of Americans already and thirst for more Fighting back is a necessity unless people want the peace of the grave 65 On December 20 2016 Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman compared the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov to the assassination of Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Jewish student Herschel Grynszpan saying justice has been served 66 Russia has demanded an official apology from Daily News citation needed Since 2018 Daily News has been preventing internet users in the European Union from accessing its website on grounds of missing data protection compliance 67 68 69 See also edit nbsp New York City portal nbsp Journalism portalMedia in New York CityReferences edit a b Tracy Marc September 20 2021 The Daily News gets an as needed editor until a new one is found The New York Times Retrieved September 23 2021 Mahler April 1 2005 What Rupert Wrought New York Retrieved May 1 2018 It has stolen from the Daily News the mantle of New York s populist paper America s Biggest Newspaper 70 Years Ago Sounded a Lot 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