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New York Post Can't Find the Humor in a Monkey on a Plane

The story about an escaped monkey wreaking havoc on a plane at JFK provides an object lesson in why SEO is ruining news.

By Jen Doll

May 22, 2012

Why We Can't Resist a 'Too Hot for Work' Story

There's a made-for-the-tabs story on the covers of the New York Post and New York Daily News today, and ostensibly, it's about breasts. But really, it's about much more than that.

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By Jen Doll

May 16, 2012

How to Date a Married Secret Service Agent

Wednesday's cover of the New York Daily News is kind of a big one, a first-person confession from a woman who claims to have dated and slept with Secret Service Agent Arthur Huntington well before his scandalous encounter with that Colombian prostitute. Oh, and she is not his wife.

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By Jen Doll

May 8, 2012

Tabloids Get Their 'Rape Cop,' If Not a Rape Conviction Itself

The New York Post and the Daily News devote their front pages to the story of Michael Pena, who was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison yesterday on three counts of predatory sexual assault.

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By Jen Doll

May 3, 2012

The French vs. American Moms Debate Continues

To assume that an entire nation of parents is great is as silly as assuming that an entire set of people born in under one birth sign are exactly the same. But that hasn't stopped the ongoing "Where is it better to be a mom?" debate.

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By Jen Doll

May 1, 2012

Nudes, Sports, and Boobs: The Daily News Hits a Tabloid Trifecta

Perhaps the Daily News is taking seriously those allegations that they've gone soft. Maybe there really is a so-called "WAR!"on with the New York Post.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 23, 2012

Andrea Peyser Does Not Approve of This 'Online Dating'

Poor misguided "dating spreadsheet guy" of last week has another moment in the New York Post, this time from Andrea Peyser, our new favorite dating columnist, who's not only full of advice but also so effervescently positive.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Apr 23, 2012

Tabloid Editors Can Act Like Gentlemen ... Sometimes

Part of the fun of reading Steve Fishman's profile of the former News of the World/New York Post editor and current New York Daily News editor Colin Myler, is finding out where he and his former boss draw the line now that they're rivals. Apparently it's at hackers and madams.

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By Adam Martin

Apr 17, 2012

The New York Post Can't Stomach AP's Pulitzer

The New York Post's editorial about the Associated Press's Pulitzer prize for its coverage of the NYPD spying on Muslims is angry even for a paper that employs Andrea Peyser.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 2, 2012

Has the New York Post Unfriended the Mommy Madam?

There's another article about Anna Gristina in the paper that makes us wonder if the editors have decided to go a bit harder on the Mommy Madam—and if that's the case, if it has anything to do with the claims of last week that the paper and the madam are friends.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 30, 2012

And the New York Post Employee with the 'Mommy Madam' Relationship Is...

The New York Post's Jeane MacIntosh has come forward to admit that "Anna Gristina, the notorious soccer mom madam, does have a relationship with someone at the New York Post. It's me."

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By Jen Doll

Mar 29, 2012

Report: Mommy Madam Claimed to Be Friends with New York Post Editor

Reading the New York Post's coverage of the Mommy Madam case, one might've been tempted to say that the editors of that paper are in her camp. The New York Observer's Foster Kamer has suggested an explanation: Col Allan, editor of the New York Post, is friends with the Mommy Madam herself.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 27, 2012

The Continued Politicization of the Trayvon Martin Case

The cover of Tuesday's New York Post is dedicated to the Trayvon Martin story, but there's a twist: It's not about Martin (or his alleged shooter, George Zimmerman) at all, but about the tragedy being "hijacked by 'race hustlers.'"

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By Jen Doll

Mar 14, 2012

The Mommy Madam Case Just Got a Little More Interesting

We're back in business with the Mommy Madam story: Jaynie Mae Baker, the matchmaker accused of being Anna Gristina's second in command, turned herself in Tuesday.

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By Adam Martin

Jan 24, 2012

In New York Dailies, Three Very Different Rape Trials

Three New York daily newspapers carrying three different accounts of the rape trial of a Saudi prince's friend on Monday posted stories so varied you'd be forgiven if you didn't realize they were all about the same thing.

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By Adam Martin

Oct 27, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Kitchen Denies Starving Out Freeloaders

The quality of the food at Occupy Wall Street has been well documented, but meals there will morph on Friday to more simple fare like rice and beans for three days -- not to dissuade undesirable elements from partaking, as the New York Post reported on Thursday, but simply to give the kitchen a chance to get organized, members of the food committee said.

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By Eric Randall

Oct 19, 2011