NYT and NYP Have Wildly Different Ways Of Telling New Yorkers They Are Okay Eight Years Later

The front page story and accompanying photo (which I at first glance took to be an old shot of the World Trade Center) of today’s New York Times is about how the New Yorkers feared after 9/11 has not come to pass.

But New Yorkers were introduced that day to irreducible presumptions about their wounded city that many believed would harden and become chiseled into the event’s enduring legacy.

New York would become a fortress city, choked by apprehension and resignation, forever patrolled by soldiers and submarines. Another attack was coming. And soon.

Eight years on every one who lives here is well aware this is not the case! As the Times points out, skyscrapers still have tenants, tourists still come to the city (to put it mildly). But does anything demonstrate the emotional recovery of the city better than today’s New York Post cover? The Post, which is rarely one to miss an opportunity for a dramatic cover, barely mentions today’s anniversary. It’s relegated to a tiny box in the top corner; the Post doesn’t always need splashy headlines to get the point across.

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