The New York Times and The New York Post

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There are many obvious differences and similarities between The New York Times and The New York Post. The New York Times is liberal and more serious, whereas The New York Post is conservative and is more of a tabloid. New York Times is more organized and is divided into more sections than the New York Post is. The New York Post is more colorful, meaning it has more pictures that are large in size. In The New York Times there are more words than pictures.  Some of the pages in the Times are lettered, whereas there are no lettered pages in the Post. The Times seems to be more bulky than the Post since each section for the Times is like its own newspaper in a way. The Post is considered to be more opinionated in general towards the end of the newspaper, especially since it has its own opinion section. The New York Times is not known for incorporating a lot of opinion based articles. The New York Post is known for its gossip section; page six, whereas the Times do not put much emphasis on the gossip that circulates around New York. The New York Post puts a lot of emphasis on the gossip in page six by writing articles about them in the beginning of the paper. Sometimes one of the gossip stories can be front page. The New York Times puts more emphasis on news and puts any gossip towards the end of their paper in short articles.

The similarities between the two newspapers are much more noticeable. For example, the two newspapers have similar news-based sections such as the sports, business, and international sections. Both also have non-news related sections like the horoscope, movie clock, food, weather, crosswords, comics, and su doku.

One similar story that both the October 12 New York Times and New Post has is about Joe Girardi and the focus on the Yankees pitching. The article in The New York Times is names, “Yankees’ Off-Season Again Focuses on Hunt for Front-Line Pitching”, wheras the article in the Post is named, “Joe Signals Great pitching not always needed.” Joe Girardi, the Yankees manager, talks about the Yankees failure to make it to the first round of the playoffs and what lies ahead for next year. The main point was that he Yankees would once again be in the market for a frontline pitcher. The article also discussed different players who would be eligible to come to the Yankees and who might be asked to leave or lave because they are free agents. The article in the New York Times was more factual compared to the article in the New York Post. Joel Sherman, the author of the article in the New York Post expressed mostly his opinion on which players should join the Yankees and which players should leave. One can tell the article was very opinionated when Sherman started the article off by saying, “Let’s begin in the most obvious place: It is far better to have great starting pitching than something less than that.” But then again the article seems much more interesting when the author incorporates some of his views and opinions on the topic being written about, like the New York Post does a lot.