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Founded in 1919, the New York Daily News was the first major tabloid newspaper to achieve success in the United States. Initially, it emphasized sensational crime and scandal stories with lurid photographs, as well as classified ads, comics, and other entertainment features. By 1930, the News had become a national phenomenon and was one of the best-selling newspapers in the country.
The Daily News’s editorial staff grew increasingly concerned with the economic anxieties of its readership in the wake of the Great Depression, and it shifted away from its previous emphasis on glamour to focus on “the real problems of the people,” as its then-editor, Joseph Medill Patterson, put it. These included economic concerns (such as the fear that racially integrated neighborhoods would cause property values to plummet) and fears about cultural change.
Although the News did not explicitly support antisemitism, it frequently attacked Jews and portrayed them as corrupting American society. The paper was also hostile to homosexuals, and in its 1948 editorial “The Lavender Scare,” the News argued that “the sexual proclivities of a few… threaten the basic security of this nation.”
The News continued to advocate reactionary populism through the 1940s, when it was the nation’s best-selling newspaper. The News and other mass-circulation papers of the era, such as William Buckley’s National Review, targeted the same targets as the Daily News-bureaucrats, foreign policy makers, government regulations, communists, and “community leaders” who were perceived as having an inordinate amount of influence on their respective communities.