Pat Takes NY Post Murdoch Rant to Daily Beast

Thursday, 21 July 2011 | by Pat's Picks

Yesterday, I chewed out the New York Post on-air for burying its Murdoch coverage. Judging by the response I got, a lot viewers felt the same way. Editors at the Daily Beast certainly did. They asked me to weigh in on the fact that we have come to expect that News Corp. media outlets will bury a story about the boss. in a column that just went up on their site.  I toned down my dressing down of the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal after reading an article in today’s paper that included about as blunt an assessment as you’ll find in any newspaper on its parent company’s troubles. But I still find it incredulous that the Post chose the bury its coverage of the Murdoch hearing on not the first, not the second, but third page of the business section.

Here’s my In the Papers segment, in case you missed it: