If Rupert Murdoch Really Wants to Charge for Content This Is What I’m Willing to Pay For

by Glynnis MacNicol | 2:13 pm, August 25th, 2009

Weasel When the Times reported today that former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is considering running for Governor of New York — and really the field could not be any more wide open — my first thought (after the panic subsided) was how thrilled the New York Post would be to have Hizzoner Rudy back as a regular cover subject: elephant dung wars, the public dumping of his second wife, Rudy’s eight year term was really a match made in Heaven for the Post. My second thought was a nice little round-up of the best Post covers from the Giuliani era might be a fun dog days August afternoon post.

Alas! New York Post covers — arguably the best dose of daily pop art available — are not that easy to come by online. The website’s cover archive only goes back to October 11, 2006, which is great, but barely even scrapes the tip of the iceberg. If Rupert Murdoch really wants to start charging for his online sites, archiving all the New York Post covers from the last 50 years would be a great place to start. I would pay for access to that in a heartbeat: unlike the NYT, the Post doesn’t need to wait for Obama to do something historical to jack up its cover value; a quick browse of what’s already available quickly reveals many of the covers have a timeless quality about them. Regardless of how you feel about the Post’s content it’s nearly impossible not to enjoy the daily newsstand theater its front page provides. Why the MOMA hasn’t already jumped on this for some sort of retrospective is baffling. In the meantime, some of the best from what I could find floating around these interwebs — now just pretend you have the whole shebang at your fingertips.

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4 comments

JimW says:

August 25, 2009 at 2:28 pm

Well, Glynnis, don’t pay for it. Pretty simple, huh? I wouldn’t pay to read you, either.

Glynnis MacNicol says:

August 25, 2009 at 3:25 pm

Actually, this entire post is about how I would pay for a NYP cover archive.

ef200 says:

August 25, 2009 at 4:15 pm

If you’re really willing to pay to see a gallery of Post front pages, the answer is right here: “Headless Body in Topless Bar: The Best Headlines from America’s Favorite Newspaper,” published in 2008 by HarperCollins and over 200 pages with nothing but Post covers.

http://www.amazon.com/Headless-Body-Topless-Bar-Headlines/dp/0061340715/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251234836&sr=8-1

Peter Mullan says:

August 25, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Yep, Glynnis, if you knew anything about The New York Post, you would have known about that book.

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