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The Daily News Makes It

by Nicholas King

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For several months, New York lived in the shadow of the disappearance of the Daily News, the city’s largest-circulation newspaper. Its parent, the Tribune company of Chicago, thought it wasn’t profitable enough and wanted to sell it. But eventually the Tribune reconsidered and decided to keep it, under a new dispensation with the unions. The agony was long-drawn-out, and the public—and the News’s columnists—had plenty of time to be miserable. Now they feast on their words.

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