New York Enquirer
The New York Enquirer has been the name of two unrelated newspapers published in New York City.
19th century New York Enquirer
The New York Enquirer was founded in 1826 by Mordecai Noah. According to the masthead, it was "published every Tuesday and Friday at No. 1 Williams St., New York, New York". Noah was a strong supporter of Andrew Jackson and published often highly slanted pro-Jackson news reporting, along with international news.
By the early 1830s it had merged with a Whig paper to become the Morning Courier & New York Enquirer.
20th century New York Enquirer
Founded in 1926 as The New York Evening Enquirer, Sunday afternoon newspaper distributed throughout the city. It was founded by anti-Semite William Griffin in 1926 and became a voice for isolationism and fascist propaganda in the 1930s and 1940s.[1] Griffin was a protege of William Randolph Hearst who lent him money for the venture. As partial payment of his loan, Hearst asked to use the Enquirer as a proving ground for new ideas. Hearst took the ideas that worked in his successful publications; the less successful ideas stayed with the Enquirer, and as a result the Enquirer's sales never soared. The paper was indicted along with Griffin for sedition by a grand jury in 1942 for subverting the morale of US troops due to Griffin's editorials against US military involvement in World War II. The charges were later dropped.[2] In 1952 the paper’s circulation fell to 17,000 copies a week and it was purchased Generoso Pope Jr., allegedly with funds provided by Mafia boss Frank Costello. It has also been alleged that Costello provided the money in exchange for the Enquirer's promise to list lottery numbers and to refrain from all mention of Mafia activities.[3]
In 1953, Pope revamped the format from a broadsheet to a sensationlist tabloid focusing on sex and violence. The paper's editorial content became so salacious that Griffin was forced by the Mayor to resign from the city's Board of Higher Education in 1954.[2] In 1957, Pope changed the name of the newspaper to the The National Enquirer and changed its scope to national stories of sex and scandal.[2]
References
- Noah, Mordecai Manuel The New York Enquirer
- Tales of the Early Republic Web Project
- New York University library
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- ^ Under Cover, p. 246, by John Roy Carlson, (1943)
- ^ a b c http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/EnquirerStar-Group-Inc-Company-History.html
- ^ MacIntyre, Ben, National Enquirer Said Launched By Mafia Money, November 11, 1999