Posted on March 9, 2016 by Brendan Jay Sullivan in The Observer The Observer, By Brendan Jay Sullivan Anything groundbreaking happen in the world’s richest economy last night? Perhaps you were going to pick up the paper for news about the primaries? Don’t worry—The New York Post will get to that on page eight, because the front page is devoted to shaming one single homeless person. The Post story gets deep background from two anonymous sources with intimate knowledge of the woman’s socioeconomic and mental condition: “a hard hat” and “a doorman.” Then they give the 60-year-old woman’s full name. Nevermind that if we wanted to see shocking images of the homeless in New York City we could literally just not buy The New York Post and instead hold our hands a tabloid-distance apart while we walk around the city.
