Hooray. Mud-Slinging Is Not Just For Politics Anymore.
That's not quite how the Post and the News spun it, however. (See above, courtesy of Gothamist.)
The unending rivalry between the Post and the News has now taken a page from well, their own pages (at least those that mention the mid-term election hoohah.) And yes, they sound exactly like political campaign managers. Number 5 on the Post's "Top Ten Reasons The Post Beat The News"? "We break news – they break promises and don't pay contest winners."
Um, Snap?
Not to worry, the News hit back. "The Daily News is still New York's Hometown Newspaper - and by a wide margin." Further down, the News quotes its editor in chief and deputy publisher, who "took dead aim at his half-price competitor" with this thoughtful tidbit: "If you'd lost $300 million over the past five years, spent $200 million on new presses, carpet-bombed neighborhoods with free copies and lost fortunes to sell a few thousand papers in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, you'd be desperate to celebrate creeping a few copies ahead of us. The Daily News is STILL unequivocally the No. 1 newspaper in the place that counts - New York."
Perhaps this kind of mud-slinging will have the same effect for tabloids that it has had on voter turnout.