The New York Daily News, whose covers eviscerated Candidate Trump in 2016, is taking a different tack with President Trump
For most of 2016, the New York Daily News was America’s paper of
opposition to Donald Trump. But in the months since the election, just
as Trump’s 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 York’s outer boroughs,
where Trump’s nationalistic populism apparently resonates in a way that
is anathema to the city’s 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 paper’s 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.
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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)
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