September 22, 2008
Will the Sun Set on The Sun?
It's almost the end of September and the NY Sun's future is still questionable. The NY Times looks at the fate of the broadsheet and speaks with its editor Seth Lipsky, who says, "I haven’t raised all that I need, but I’ve raised a lot," but admitted the paper is in a "tight spot." Still some wonder if the paper can ever be profitable; currently, its paid circulation is 14,000 and "it gives away about 66,000 copies a day." The paper's revival and scrappiness are also examined: Former city editor David Lombino wistfully recalls, "We felt very much like we were in the Wild West of the industry, putting out a daily newspaper in the country’s biggest media market with relatively few resources and a startup climate. We were this ragtag, guerrilla-style troupe.”
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Pity.
I like this paper, especially the columns by Alicia Colon. If the NY Times could put aside their liberal bias for a minute, they'd be smart to hire her.
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Usually, loosing a newspaper is sad. In this case, well, I think we have enough highly subsidized right wing media--the NY Post, the City Journal, and so on--already. Oh, and if the Sun does survive and they run another editorial by Conrad Black, I think they should include his prison ID number in his byline just to make sure reader mail makes it to him.
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Haven't the right wing nuts gotten us into enough of a mess already? It's bad enough we have a press corps that won't ask real questions (to be patriotic) and even worse with nut jobs beating the war drum like at the Sun.
I like some of its columnists like Michael Stoler, but their editorial page is for bird cage lining. It's not about being liberal or conservative - it's about good judgement. The Sun doesn't have it.