The New York Daily News, among many, is not exactly impressed with the pseudo-candidacy of real estate person Donald Trump, and today made it abundantly clear with a cover calling the mogul a “birther” and “racist” and an accompanying story entitled “Mickey Mouse Donald.” On tonight’s Factor, Bill O’Reilly took publisher Mort Zuckerman to task over the racist allegations, which Zuckerman argued were legitimate stemming from Trump’s birther obsession.

The Atlantic, a magazine that was founded when there were only thirty-one states in the union, will be making a profit this year— for the first time in at least a decade, according to the New York Times. They did this by imagining themselves “as a venture-capital-backed start-up in Silicon Valley whose mission was to attack and disrupt The Atlantic.” Yet beneath the digital makeover, they’re still print sentimentalists at heart—which they proved when they called the customer whose check officially brought them out of the red.

Changes are afoot at the ol’ U.S. News & World Report. Keith Keilly of the New York Post alerted Twitter of an internal memo released by U.S. News that reported its own demise.

Real estate and media mogul, and one-time potential politician Mort Zuckerman‘s claim on Fox News yesterday that he helped write one of President Barack Obama‘s speeches appears to be falling apart at a rather quick pace.

he announcement today that the Washington Post Co. intended to put Newsweek up for sale initially appeared to take the media world by surprise and, according to Howie Kurtz, stunned the newsroom into silence. For those who have been following the travails on the magazine in recent years, however, the news should probably have not come as much of a surprise

At this point it’s really tempting fate to ask what else could go wrong with New York State politics. Just now Rep. Charlie Rangel announced he was ‘temporarily’ stepping down as chairman of the Ways and Means committee. Yesterday, Mort Zuckerman, who was rumored to have pushed Harold Ford out of his run for Senate dropped out of the race. And then there is David Paterson. Oh David Paterson.

Citing family and work engagements New York Daily News publisher and owner Mort Zuckerman dropped out of the Senate race tonight, various sources are reporting. His official statement reads:

“At this time, it is very difficult to see how I can devote the necessary time to either a campaign, or to working in Washington, if I were to win.”

Anyone else feel like New York politics has turned into some sort of evil game of roulette? With yesterday’s news that Harold Ford would not be throwing his hat in the New York senate ring comes a whole new round of gaming who might be willing to give it a shot. Enter Daily News and US News & World Report publisher Mort Zuckerman. Even the New York Post thinks this is a good idea.

High-rolling real estate player and New York Daily News publisher Mortimer B. Zuckerman may have politics in his future, according to a New York Times report this weekend. Zuckerman sees the Senate seat held by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand as “vulnerable,” but might run as a Republican or independent — despite his known political leanings — to avoid having to pay for a primary campaign.

The media establishment in New York may frequently feel that the dismantling of their industry has reached what could be described as biblical proportions of the “dogs and cats living together” type. Be that as it may, it apparently is not yet bad enough for the New York Post and the New York Daily News to consider “printing together,” despite the fact such an arrangement would feasibly be to their mutual benefit.

It’s difficult to follow print journalism these days without feeling bashed over the head by the irony of the term. Most of the big stories are either about closures or firings, and what positive news there is tends to be about innovative moves online.

But according to the New York Times, one man is doubling down on print: Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman.

“We’re talking to ourselves. It’s like we have built this conservative ghetto — like the Warsaw Ghetto — where we have put ourselves ideologically in a box, and we shout and scream and yell at each other, but we need to get out and we need to start talking to the center of America where elections are won .”

— Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, in discussion with Sam Tanenhaus about his latest book, The Death of Conservatism, on the echo chamber of current Conservative thought.

When the summer news slump hits medialand and there is no Montauk Monster to fill post quotas (and the Sotomayor hearings are not quite the MJ circus C-SPAN hopes them to be) nothing quite fits the bill like speculation on the evil machinations of Rupert Murdoch.

The latest? Rupe is out the buy the New York Daily News!