[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 116 (Tuesday, July 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H7082-H7083]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      FOLDING OF NEW YORK NEWSDAY

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday morning when I woke up in New 
York, I did what I customarily do, I go to the door of my apartment and 
pick up the newspapers. Something was missing. That was New York 
Newsday, the paper that folded that Sunday. All New Yorkers, and 
particularly those of us who read Newsday and were covered in Newsday, 
regret this loss very much.
  Whether it was their feisty and comprehensive coverage in New York 
City or the investigations they did or the thoroughness with which they 
treated the outer boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, where I come from, or 
whether it was the complete, fair, and balanced coverage of Washington 
which made the reader interested in what went on there, New York 
Newsday is going to be missed. I regret very much that it is not 
continuing.
  It seemed that it was almost about to turn a profit when its life was 
untimely ended, and yet those of us who know the reporters and editors 
and delivery people who made this newspaper tick will tell the Members 
one thing: It did a great job, it improved all of its competitor 
papers, as they would be the first to admit, and it made our city a 

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better place. New Yorkers and Americans will miss New York Newsday.

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