Newspaper wars, ca. 2005

Fun article in this week's New Yorker about the ongoing spat between the News and the Post. The catalyst was an error in the News' reader sweepstakes:

A plaintiff’s lawyer, Steven Gildin, addressed the crowd as his partners handed out business cards. “How can a company that publishes information make mistakes?” he said. (The Post, the following morning, misspelled Gildin’s name.) Then City Councilman Charles Barron called on everyone to boycott the Sunday News. The crowd began marching and shouting, “Boycott the Daily News!,” which turned to “No pay, no readers!” and, eventually, simply “We want money!”

Paying your readers? A revolutionary concept.