Talk:Newsday

message: I came to this via a link for what I thought was the BBC programme Newsday on the page Sharanjit Leyl.Do all the presenters of the BBC programme have the wrong links? 86.173.98.24 (talk) 03:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong page

message: The Newsday article was filled with opinion and original analysis, both of which is severaly disallowed under Wikipedia policy and guidelines. Here is some of what I've excised, with annotations.
(William J. Casey was Newsday's first choice to serve as leader of the "Crossroads" organization, but he chose to take over the CIA instead.) In a new introduction to a 1991 edition of a book detailing the Arizona Project, it was asserted that Newsday's Bob Greene had attempted to appoint a elite clique to manage the state, and that they differed from the crooks and killers who had ignited the scandals mainly in being "higher up on the food chain".
The preceding is all uncited. What book detailing the Arizona Project? Who wrote and published it? Wikipedia requires full, verifiable, confirmable citations, and neutral, non-POV text. We can't just say "it was asserted" -- WHO asserted what? -- and can't use inexact, unencyclopedic terms like "crooks and killers":
For a few years starting in 1988, under then-publisher Robert M. Johnson, Newsday embarked on a series of aggressive campaigns, to purge "maverick" environmentalists from the "rambunctious" Suffolk Legislature,, to promote the construction of "WillyWorld" in Yaphank, to build a "Business-Labor Coalition" (whose main players were the kind of characters Newsday had won its Pultitzers for investigating, and whose remarks about civic associations and environmental groups usually had an ominous tone),,, to build a major jetport at Calverton, to give the development lobby control of underground water supplies, and, above all, to create an Urban Development Corporation subsidiary that critics claimed amounted to a virual coup d'etat - permanently transferring important powers from elected governments to a self-selected clique of developers and their allies.
None of the four cited news articles here say anything about the first sentence's claim, except for the existence of a "business-labor coaliton" (lowercase) in the fourth citation. NONE use the words "maverick" or "rambuctious". None of this is neutral — it clearly reads as if written by someone with an ax to grind.
There's much more, all similar to these examples of loaded words, use of the inexact and vague passive voice, citations with no connection to claims, and loads of opinion and original analysis. -- 69.22.254.111 17:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rampant, disallowed [[WP:POV]] and [[WP:OR]]

message: Do we really need a list of comic strips in the paper? Jonathan D. Parshall 03:22, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comics

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Newsdayfront.jpg

message: Offices were first in Hempstead, are now in Melville. Anywhere else? What year did they move?--JimWae (talk) 02:15, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location 

message: There have been complaints against Newsday by the president of the Catholic League, and this might possibly be noted in an eventual article section on bias and criticism  ADM (talk) 08:39, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Catholic League complains about everybody. --TS 19:54, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Editorial bias

message: As I am sure many people are aware, circulation figures for almost all print media have fallen significantly in the last few years, as a consequence of the move to online content. This article however seems not to reflect this, instead prominently referring to data for 2014. To my mind, this is liable to be misleading, and needs correction. While I'm not sure this is necessarily the best source for such data, I note that the UK Press Gazette states that Newsday average weekday circulation declined by 37% between Q3 2016 and Q1 2020   If the Q1 2020 figure given (123,905) is directly comparable with that stated for 2014 in the article lede (437,000), the decline is even more obvious.
Is there a recognised source generally used by Wikipedia for press circulations? If so, this article should certainly be using it. With more recent data, reflecting the trend. 109.158.187.204 (talk) 23:38, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circulation