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Some front pages, from around New York. 

via Capital New York

some front pages today, from newseum.org

Mike Wallace’s questions for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[Yesterday was] the 20th anniversary of the first episode of The Real World…it was filmed at 565 Broadway in SoHo. Everyone under 30 who had cable watched it - I think most people watched it up until the San Fran season with Puck being a jerk and Pedro dying…

Christine Quinn’s wedding is the lead story on www.nypost.com.

It helps that in Weisenthal’s line of work, being wrong doesn’t hurt much. Writing about the markets is like playing fantasy football; it’s a simulacrum of Wall Street. Weisenthal’s money is not at stake; investors aren’t paying him. Weisenthal embraces this freedom. He will make the same prediction repeatedly, crowing when he’s right and shrugging it off when he isn’t.
Thompson informed Gov. Mario Cuomo of his decision on Wednesday.
From an Associated Press story today, inaccurately referring to Mario, instead of Andrew Cuomo.

The front pages from North Carolina…

“I’m going to continue on with my greatest social experiment of seeing how misinformed a person can be while still hosting a morning news program.”

—Fred Armisen as Rupert Murdoch, on Saturday Night Live

images from newseum

How to fold the New York Times, for subway reading. via WNYC & The TakeAway

With the exception of Matt Lauer, there’s nobody who’s been on morning television in New York City as long as me, at least in the anchor role.

Two upstate newspapers have local hooks into the story of Dick Clark.