Twitter to Daily News: Drop Dead
A Metro Final front page that flies in the face of Mort Zuckerman's haughty words.
As first reported by FishbowlNY, Mort Zuckerman recently announced that the New York Daily News is no longer for sale. In an Aug. 20 memo to staff, the wealthy owner included the following sentence:
We have further sharpened our focus on how best to move the business forward in this new digital era.
A week later, his paper’s front page editors have made a mockery of that statement. As tonight’s angry Twitter reaction so clearly confirms, there is absolutely nothing sharpened or “best” practices about the Thursday Aug.
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