NY Post Defends Cover ‘Celebrating’ Murder of New York Landlord

[CatWoman]

The New York Post, no stranger to the controversial cover, took it up a notch on Sunday when it trumpeted murdered Williamsburg businessman Menachem Stark’s surfeit of enemies by asking, “Who Didn’t Want Him Dead?”



Guess what? Didn’t go over too well with the Brooklyn community. As the Post itself reported Monday morning, the cover generated intense criticism, including from Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield: “For us, not just Orthodox Jews, but for all New Yorkers, we are disgusted, outraged and appalled that The New York Post would celebrate on their front page the murder of an innocent New Yorker.”

Despite conceding the criticism, the Post maintained it had simply reported factually on the number of people who had a motive to murder Stark, and even referred to Stark, whose burned body was found in a Long Island dumpster on Saturday, as a “slumlord” in its followup.

“The Post does not say Mr. Stark deserved to die, but our reporting showed that he had many enemies, which may have led to the commission of this terrible crime,” a spokesperson for the paper said on Monday, and added—wait for it—“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family at this time of loss.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/ny-post-defends-cover-celebrating-murder-of-new-york-landlord/

[Suburban Warrior]

1. The NY Post is

a Rupert Murdoch owned rag that is infamous for it's tasteless covers. No one deserves to die the way this guy did. That being said, Max Stark was one of the worst slumlords in Brooklyn. Several of his properties were in default and he owned tens of millions of dollars to banks and other "individuals". He was a real scam artist and the fact is, there were probably a lot of people who wanted too see this guy dead, which is what the Post cover implies.

[NJCher]

2. whodunnit?

What do you think?

I think it's someone to whom he owed money. As one of the stories says, he was on the phone the day of his abduction with someone borrowing a half a million. He was successful with that, if I recall correctly. Maybe the half a million was to go to whomever paid the abductors?

This is not the type of thing a tenant would do, no matter how awful the living conditions.

And the banksters? Maybe, but prol'ly not.

But I am going to guess that it's a smaller lender, someone from whom he borrowed something like 259k to half a million.



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