Conservative voice in NYC goes silent
The New York Sun published its final edition today. The six-year-old, conservative-minded newspaper had been unsuccessful in finding new financial backers. On the newspaper’s website, Editor Seth Lipsky wrote:
I tend to be an optimist and held out hope for a favorable outcome as late as mid-afternoon today. But among other problems that we faced was the fact that this month, not to mention this week, has been one of the worst in a century in which to be trying to raise capital, and in the end we were out not only of money but time.




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back to top15 Comments to “Conservative voice in NYC goes silent”
All hope is not lost. We still have the NY Post.
I read it ea time I go up to Long Island to visit inlaws.
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Sawgunner,
You can get the “New York Post” on LINK below:
http://www.nypost.com/
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I am sad when any newspaper closes. Unfortunately, I think the days of “real” newspapers are coming to an end. I think a few national newspapers will survive (NY Times, USA Today, WSJ for example), but most local papers will end up on the internet.
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Dreary news….
In what will I wrap my green turnings to cure if there’s no newspaper?
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I will never forget where I was when I got the final issue of the Dallas Times Herald.. SAUDI ARABIA!
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As Anlir suggests, the death of any daily is sad. Any decent newspaper has a personality and becomes a part of your life. As it does for most who work there.
I grew up with the Herald Tribune for news and the Daily News for entertainment. The Times was, and still is in many ways, way too gray a lady for me. Except on Sunday, when it could take up most of the day.
Our local paper is pretty wretched, but nonetheless every day I work my way through the one or two items of interest, the classifieds and, very rarely,their editorial and one or two syndicated columnists. I’d miss it, probably more than I think.
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I’ve watched our local paper–a NYT subsidiary–slump into almost nothing. I can’t understand why they don’t realize the only reason to read the paper is local news. Instead, they fill their increasingly thinner paper with wire stories and columns about San Francisco professional teams–forcing me to turn to the Internet to read about my own high school athlete.
Someone told me Craigslist is the reason the classifieds are so truncated. Craigslist won’t take ads for houses or pets, so that is the predominant item for sale in our classified section.
It is a tragedy, no matter your political leanings.
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Hello, my name is Anlir and I’m a newspaper “addict”. It’s true – I cannot walk by a newsstand without stopping for a gander. I see all those newspapers and I want to reach out and grab one of each and devour them from cover to cover. I get my daily “fix” with the New York Times and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Sometimes I even gorge and read USA Today. Seattle, Chicago, London, San Francisco, LA, Washington, Dallas, Philly, Baltimore – curses on all of you!
And when I’m really on a bender I’ll read the really trashy stuff like the “New York Post” or the “Washington Times”. But, like Arcadia, nothing is better than the Sunday NY Times! I read the whole thing, which properly done, takes around 6 hours.
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Here in Leesville we lack any nearby big city dailies. It’s reached the point that I subscribe to the Longview Texas SUNDAY edition. It gets mailed to me which means last week’s news arrives no earlier than Wednesday.
When I lived in San Angelo Texas I could get the local paper, the Dallas paper and even the San Antonio paper.
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For alternative, nonMSM press can you really beat any of the following:
REASON
National Review
The Progressive
HUMAN EVENTS
First Things
Utne Reader
Mother Jones?
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“Utne” and “Mother Jones” are two of my favorite mags!
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I had a friend in college that would go to the 7-11 on weekends and stuff sports sections from all of the daily’s (4 or 5) into the cheapest paper and then buy the overstuffed paper. As an avid sports fan I cringed at the thought of purchasing one of the papers my friend had gotten his hands on. Just like checking for broken eggs in a carton, check for the sports section in your newspaper.
I always was curious how many papers would be sold if they didn’t include a sports section (not including the ones my friend stole from).
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How could you possibly think that your conservative paper could be successful in the most whack job liberal city on the East Coast? These people have been brainwashed for nearly a hundred years and are nearly brain dead by now. They only know and believe what ever the insane lefty of the day is lying to them about in the Times. You can’t fix these people until government paid electroshock treatments become mandatory for lefties. no sense wasting any effort whatsoever until then
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I travel to Japan and Singapore a lot and always read the small newspaper they hand out at the hotel. It is a refreshingly non-partisan newspaper that gives you a quick view of the entire world. Of course there are claims that they are government mouth pieces, but I have nothing at stake, so I don’t worry about it and just enjoy the read.
When I get home, I rarely read the local paper. It’s just a bunch of people I don’t trust or believe, spouting their opinions. We have nothing that resembles a balanced newspaper here.
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I’m in agreement with you MD on your opinion of our newspapers, they never seem to be balanced. What is worse, to have paper that can be interfered with by government or one that can be interfered with by owners or editors with lots of money and or lots of opinions? There is no perfect system for reporting the news, and it will always contain the bias of those that produce it.
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