Talk:Daily News (New York)

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It should be mentioned somewhere about the huge strike the killed the circulation. At one time the Daily News had over 2 million daily circulation and was the largest newspaper by far in America till the strike.

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[edit] Cleanup

This article is full of weasel words and needs to have a huge clean up. 05:59, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

"The News' headlines and photos have often been considered among the most creative in journalism. Famous headlines from the Daily News include" "If the paper tends to the left, it is certainly closer to the center than its liberal and conservative counterparts in the region[...]" Just those quotes are full of weasel words, so why was the template removed? 20:51, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

  • OK, I've tried to make those sections a bit more neutral. Is there anything else you're concerned about?--Pharos 01:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pulitzer Prizes

BEFORE ANYONE ADDS that the paper has received 10 Pulitzers, CITE YOUR SOURCES. Otherwise, the piece goes. 24.188.136.219 19:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Okay, there you go.The Invisible Man 04:02, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Political stance

The main text of this article seems to make the claim that the Daily News assumes a liberal-leaning editorial stance, but the info box lists its tendency as "centre-right." I suppose this is probably accurate within European political norms, but wouldn't most Americans disagree? "Centrist" seems too nuanced for what the Daily News traffics in; would "populist" be a better phrase? I don't think so, but it doesn't seem any better than center-right. Anyone else want to weigh in? Tcatts 04:55, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

This issue has come up before (see The New York Times talk page). As far as I can tell, it appears that British and other European newspapers often formally align themselves with a political party, so that data can be considered a "fact" suitable for inclusion in an infobox. However, such a formal alignment is seldom done in the United States, so any entry in the "political allegiance" field would clearly be POV. I'd argue that in the U.S., this infobox field should always be blanked or removed altogether. The article body itself is a more suitable place for NPOV description of politics. Of course, even there such a description should include citations, in order to avoid the inclusion of original research. -Tobogganoggin talk 03:49, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article name

Based on Wikipedia:Use common names, the common name of the publication is "New York Daily News". Even the paper's website calls it that. Pacific Coast Highway {talk • contribs} 20:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

No, it doesn't, and that's a very misleading thing to say. The URL is nydailynews.com, but that's a matter of URL-name availability. You can't have dailynews(newyork).com. Scroll down the front page and you'll see columns titled "Daily News Specials" and "Daily News Columnists". The Contact Us page says, "The Daily News is located at...."
Non-New Yorkers who call it the New York Daily News are the same as non-Londoners who call that city's paper The London Times. Is that a basis to title that article "The London Times", or this "New York Daily News"?
People looking up the name of the paper need the accurate name in the title.
As well, we need naming-convention consistency. The disambiguation page Daily News lists
-69.22.254.111 13:19, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Fine. That dosen't discount common speech though. People call papers names other than what's on the cover. "The Post", "The Times" (yes, we say that too) and so on. Pacific Coast Highway {Trick • or treat!} 23:32, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, to quote Billy Joel in "New York State of Mind": "The New York Times / the Daily News / Whoaaa-oh-ohhhh...." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.22.254.111 (talk) 13:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pink cover

Some mention should be made of the pink cover editions used to sport. I can't find any online mention, but they certainly made the newspaper quite eyecatching. I'm not certain when they started but I recall them stopping in the 1970's or 80's. Saxophobia (talk) 17:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Earlier NY Daily News

There was a New York Daily News founded in 1855 by Gideon J. Tucker, any info on that? Kraxler (talk) 15:18, 23 April 2008 (UTC)