New York Daily News
The New York Daily News is a U.S. newspaper based in New York City. It is the ninth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the country, printing 200,000 copies a day. It was founded in 1919, and was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format. As of 2017, the paper is owned by tronc, the publishing operations of the former Tribune Company, and is headquartered at 4 New York Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
Though a self-proclaimed Republican newspaper for much of its history, the Daily News in recent years has exhibited a more moderate-to-liberal bias, and is often contrasted with the right-rated New York Post.
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File under “silly” the movement to force the rebranding of the day late-19th-century Italian-Americans christened to celebrate their heritage. They chose as their hero Cristoforo Colombo, the Italian explorer who, sailing for the Spanish crown, on Oct. 12, 1492, made landfall in what was then called the New World. Whatever one thinks of Columbus’ character — you won’t find a reflexive defense of him in this column — the man and his continent-connecting achievement unmistakably shaped world history.
It would be blind to that history to deem the name so toxic it cannot hold a holiday. If unworthy of a holiday, it’s surely unworthy of a great university. And of the name of the district where the U.S. Capitol sits. And so on.
More important, however, Columbus Day was never designed to suppress discussion of the oppression of indigenous peoples, an undeniable and shameful fact of our past that historians and all of us should openly acknowledge and discuss. Rather, the point of uplifting a man Italian immigrants themselves chose as a hero was to ensconce the place of that community in our national fabric.