The NY Post heads west
The nation’s most popular tabloid will launch The California Post early next year — delivering its brand of fearless, common-sense journalism and legendary headlines at a critical juncture for the Golden State.
“Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated,” said Robert Thomson, CEO of The Post’s parent company, News Corp.
“We are at a pivotal moment for the city and the state, and there is no doubt that The Post will play a crucial role in engaging and enlightening readers, who are starved of serious reporting and puckish wit.”
I don’t know that there’s any conservative paper in LA, and the NY Post’s irreverent style – part tabloid, part serious journalism, often with a dose of humor – may suit the area quite well.
Now do San Francisco.
I used to live in southern California, so this is kind of interesting to me.
The L.A. Times is hopelessly left wing; it’s become a boutique newsletter that caters to the tastes of an audience that lives in a geographic area bounded by Topanga Canyon Blvd. on the west, La Brea Avenue on the east, Ventura Blvd. on the north, and Santa Monica Blvd. on the south. IOW, the west side of L.A., including Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Bel Aire, and Malibu.
The Orange County Register used to be editorially libertarian, but legalizing drugs and prostitution are a niche taste held by people who live in neighborhoods where neither issue will ever touch them. The Register has had financial woes for the last 30 years, and is now owned by Southern California News Group, which owns the L.A. Daily News, the Long Beach Press Telegram, and other local newspapers. The Daily News is considered by many to be the San Fernando Valley’s paper, and it is ever so slightly to the right of the Times.
So maybe there is room for the Post. I hope they hire some of the interesting local writers that the Times and the Register used to employ. I mean, if your paper carries nothing but wire service stories from the AP, then you’re not really a local news outlet, are you?
I hope this succeeds. My brother in LA watches CNN and reads the LA Times. His political opinions mirror his sources of information.
@Kate:His political opinions mirror his sources of information.
Are you sure that you don’t have that sentence backward? That’s how it usually works. The “California” New York Post will just be lumped in with “Fox News” and not paid attention to.
Be interesting if the new paper’s circulation really takes off.
The legacy media are the dinosaurs. Trump is the asteroid which struck the earth 66 million years ago. Bad news for the dinosaurs.
It’s going to take a while to sort out.
Bottom line: A lot of ecological niches are now open and will be filled by evolving species.
And from one of America’s two—soon to be three—newspapers of record:
The Deep State is much older than anyone could possibly have imagined….
“Massive, mysterious ‘hot blob’ beneath Eastern US is moving toward New York, puzzling scientists”—
https://nypost.com/2025/08/04/science/mysterious-underground-blob-of-superhot-rock-moving-toward-nyc/
No, NC, he only “knows” what he reads and hears. You’re right to say that he probably won’t read the new paper, but some Californians will.
@Kate:No, NC, he only “knows” what he reads and hears.
He’s very likely making the choice to filter the information he receives to what he desires to read and hear, which conforms to what he already believes. You know him better, of course, but in today’s world anybody can easily get information from anywhere–if they want to. The “California” NY Post will just be something else he chooses not to look at, is how I would bet. I also have siblings who do the same thing, you see.
The Post and Fox News are a treasure of otherwise not-reported but significant news. Praise be to Rupert Murdock.
Not sure that Fox News was one of those papers of records I was thinking of, though it might be, I suppose.
(I was actually thinking of The Babylon Bee…moreover, if what’s happened to The WSJ is any indication, it would appear that there’s been some serious recidivism in the House of Murdoch.)
I thought I read in the past six months or so, that the L.A. Times was sold to a new right-leaning owner. I haven’t read any of their stories since then out of habit, from when they were owned by the execrable Chicago Tribune.
I also think that Newsweek has relaxed its former Democrat apartheid.
My late father-in-law, an executive at a California utility company, used to refer to the LA Times as ‘The Daily Worker’.
He was not really the NY Post type, but I wish he could have lived to see this day. I’m sure he would have enjoyed it.
As a born and bred Southern Californian, I’m looking forward to it from my perch across the Pacific.
Speaking of. Lahaina fire anniversary on Friday. Still a wasteland.
The only thing Maui government has done was pass a bill last week forcing some short term resort condo rentals to convert to long term. It will be an expensive legal battle they will lose.
Such worthless people.
“Now do San Francisco”
San Francisco lost its sense of humor with the death of Herb Caen.
Niketas is right. The “legacy” media always leaned left but used to at least attempt an appearance of being less partisan. But once they started moving further left they reached a point where it paid to keep going in that direction because conservatives had already ditched them.
Driving for Uber I meet a lot of interesting people. One guy worked for the water side of a local utility. I asked him about Arizona’s water crisis. There is no water crisis, he told me. We know where the water is, where the people will be, and we’re not stupid like they are in California.
And that explains a lot, really. California appoints/elects incompetents to offices with power. And they do stupid things, like dump water down the bay area instead of sending it south, or appointing three lesbians without the guts to tell the mayor, “No, you can’t cut our budget, again, to pay for homeless camps.”