Source: Rupert Murdoch Downsized Post Joan Rivers Coverage

According to Capital New York’s Joe Pompeo, the original mock-up for today’s New York Post front page featured Joan Rivers across the full bottom half of the page. So what happened?

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If you believe the reporter’s source, it was none other than the boss-of-all-bosses who decided half the front was too much:

This is the story being relayed in some corners of the Post‘s Sixth Avenue offices: Yesterday happened to be one of those days when Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the Post‘s parent company, News Corp, was passing through the newsroom.

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