Meet Jeremy Clinch. He’s the unfortunate young man who the New York Post desperately tried to paint as the poster child of the Occupy Wall Street movement, by splashing his mug across the front page of Friday’s paper and posting a video of him flipping out. Read more »
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the execution of Troy Davis and at 11:08 on Wednesday night, he was pronounced dead by Georgia’s Evilest. Forty minutes later, the New York Post updated their Twitter with this cruel zinger: “Yankees clinch AL East.-In other news cop killer #TroyDavis died of lethal injection.” Classy.
The city’s local tabloids are well aware that manufactured controversy sells, but the Daily News has been relatively moderate in their criticism of the bike lanes compared to the New York Post, until now. Read more »
More than 90 people died in Oslo on Friday after a bomb tore through a government building and a gunman opened fire on children at a youth camp. Although authorities have arrested Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old, blond-haired, blue-eyed, anti-Islamic nationalist in connection to the attacks, three media properties owned by News Corp. linked the carnage to Muslim extremism. Read more »
And his name is Steve Cuozzo. In Thursday’s paper, the notoriously salty columnist wrote a fact-free piece about how the traffic-calming pedestrian plazas and bike lanes on Broadway are killing businesses north of 47th Street, turning the area into a “wasteland.” Read more »
“You may as well draw the terrorists a map,” writes the New York Post in a scathing article about the “detailed schematics” for 1 World Trade Center that were published on the city’s Department of Finance website. The tabloid says the documents can assist the terrorists, but the Port Authority disagrees. Read more »
The one thing that can be said about the New York Post and their fierce opposition to bikes: at least it’s consistent. This time the tabloid takes aim at the city’s bike share program and in its latest article that would make Dr. Joseph Goebbels proud, explains why this will have disastrous effects on the city.
On Monday, the New York Post was forced to report on the massive outpouring of support for the Prospect Park West Bike lane, but today, gets back to its usual spinning. The tabloid says less people than ever are using the city’s expanding network of “controversial bike lanes” based on US Census numbers, but as Streetsblog pointed out long ago, that data isn’t all that accurate, since it only counts “people who bike as their primary mode of getting to work” and ignores the habits of recreational cyclists.
That’s a bold thing to say, I know, but so is this correction issued by the New York Post. The tabloid set the record straight about Toni Braxton, who they wrongly attributed the following quote to in an article published last month: “I have a big-ass house, three cars and I fly first class all around the world. Some say I have the perfect life.”
In case you didn’t notice yet, the New York Post really hates bikes, almost to a comical degree. Today, the paper gleefully reports on the NYPD ticketing cyclists who “recklessly blow through red lights in Central Park” on their “sporty bikes that sell for up to $10,000.” Damn those dangerous rich people! Read more »
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