Rupert Murdoch's New York Post has been the most conservative major newspaper in New York state for decades.
The Murdoch Post has been a cheerleader, in its news and editorial pages, for right-wing causes like the Bush wars, hatred of unions, lower taxes for rich people, "traditional marriage," charter schools, fracking, etc.
Though the Murdoch Post obviously appealed to the 27 percent or so of hard-core conservatives (even in NY), its business model never worked. Sure it sold a lot of papers that had ads in them, but the Murdoch Post regularly lost somewhere between $50 million and $100 million a year.
Now that News Corp. has decided to split into a TV/movie/satellite company and a newspaper company next month, the pressure is on to cut costs at money-losing papers.
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