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seejordan3 t1_j0mq6h6 wrote

Reply to comment by Infinite_Carpenter in 27-year-old woman stabbed to death at Manhattan women’s shelter by Snoo-27930

And since when has Ruperts Rag ever cared about a homeless woman? This is a tragedy and sad. But not news. It's fuel in the Adams forced hospitalization crap.

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uncle_troy_fall_97 t1_j0nilt2 wrote

  1. I’ve got complicated feelings about the Post—including a total lack of patience for the times when they play fast and loose with the facts, for instance—but they actually report these stories (and lots of other stories too), so I don’t see how you can say they “don’t care”. At this point most cities don’t even have a decent newspaper, so I’m grateful to have the Post and the Daily News in addition to the various little local Queens papers I read every week. It’s not that hard to filter out the tabloidese from a Post story, read it with a skeptical eye, and then you’re left with an actual news story. I know people who work there (and a couple of people who used to), and despite their contempt for Murdoch’s politics, they’ll admit that it’s an actual newspaper. A tabloid, sure, but a tabloid newspaper.

  2. I don’t see what this has to do with the involuntary-hospitalization thing. That program, at least as I understand it, is for people who are severely mentally ill and living on the streets and in the subways and so on, not for women living in shelters who commit crimes. I don’t see the link between the two things.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_j0q2b47 wrote

A murder in a homeless shelter is objectively newsworthy, esp. since it overlaps the issues of homelessness, the shelter crisis, and violent crime in this city.

Murders in NYC are routinely covered by every local news outlet in the city.

Why is it suddenly not newsworthy if a murder occurs at a homeless shelter?

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seejordan3 t1_j0q3tbz wrote

Its about the where and why its being reported. Its not about this woman who was murdered, its a hammer on a wedge, that creates anxiety, anger, hatred, and fear. The Post is USING this woman to sell crap. And that to me is despicable. Compare the tone of the Post to CBS's report for instance. Notice the caustic tone over at The Post?
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/woman-stabbed-to-death-at-project-renewal-shelter-in-manhattan/

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spicytoastaficionado t1_j0q5a6m wrote

>Its about the where and why its being reported

It is reported in a local paper (where) because it is a newsworthy event (why).

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>Its not about this woman who was murdered, its a hammer on a wedge, that creates anxiety, anger, hatred, and fear.

Hatred, anger, anxiety, and fear is what shelter residents experience when there is a shelter murder.

That isn't because of The Post reporting on the story. It is because someone got murdered.

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>The Post is USING this woman to sell crap. And that to me is despicable.

Do you think The Post is the only paper that uses stories "to sell crap"?

Do you also find it "despicable" when papers like Gothamist, NYDN, NYT, WaPo, etc. use stories to sell crap and push agendas? Or is it selective outrage?

Because buddy, this is hardly exclusive to a single NYC tabloid. It is the lifeblood of American media.

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>Notice the caustic tone over at The Post?

How does The Post's story have a "caustic tone"?

The entire article is 6 sentences long, and written in the style of a news wire where it just provides the basic, relevant details of the story.

It doesn't sensationalize anything and there is zero commentary in the article.

Quote the part of the article you find "caustic".

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seejordan3 t1_j0qbzd5 wrote

Thanks for your thoughtful response. I used caustic because everything at The Post is caustic (and will never read it, so yes, you "caught me"). And all those news outlets are NOT on my daily reading list. Check out Democracy Now. NY1 is pretty good too. NY1 chose not to cover this, nor did Democracy Now.

The Post uses these "news" (not news) stories to appear like a "news" outlet. Something happens that furthers their agenda, and they'll put it in (divisive fear mongering tabloid peppered with some reporting). I know reporters there, and have been quoted in articles at The Post.

I'll always call out the toxic news. The Post is just the best at it. Back to the world cup

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