Civic Centric Media Watch: NY Daily News
#GarbageInGarbageOut — New York’s Shoddy Corporate Journalism
New York City Population: 8.5 million
NYS 2016 Presidential Primary Turnout: 19.7% (The Nation)
NYS 2014 Election Turnout: 28.8% (The New York Times)
NYC 2017 City Budget: $83,000,000,000
JP Morgan Chase 2016 Market Capital: $234,000,000,000
Michael Bloomberg 2016 Net Worth: $48,400,000,000
Brooklyn L Train (400,000 riders):
Closed for 18 Months | 3 Years Single Track Service
The Daily News
Daily Circulation: 516,000 | Sunday Circulation: 645,000
Owner: Mortimer Zuckerman | Political Bent: Liberal-Democratic Party
Let’s see what civic centric news we can find at The New York Daily News — in a city with 50% living at or near poverty, the worst wealth and income inequality on the planet, decades old under funding of the arts, vanishing local businesses, alarming gentrification, crumbling subways, lack of affordable housing — and an $83,000,000,000 city budget.
How were these issues tackled in the news today? Let’s find out:
August 8 —Side Note: Interestingly, both The New York Post and The New York Daily News have the most abysmal website design imaginable for anything other than sensationalism, entertainment, and police blotter porn viewed on a phone at a two martini lunch break.
90 articles grace today’s Daily News Website — including 4 highly artistic celebrity photos/galleries.
65 articles focus on national issues, over 75% are vintage tabloid journalism — sensationalism, entertainment, professional sports centric.
25 articles focus on New York/New York City, around 2/3rd vintage tabloid journalism — sensationalism, entertainment, professional sports centric.
A bit better than last week’s New York Post snapshot — but all in all, the corporate business model employed in tabloid journalism is national centric, anything but civic centric. But that’s how the corporate business model works: scale, saturation, global reach. No time for anything else.
Just ask Last Week Tonight:
#GarbageInGarbageOut
— next week, The New York Times.
