The Fearsome Foursome was the dominating defensive line of the Los Angeles Rams of the 1960s and 1970s. Before them, the term had occasionally been applied to other defensive lines in the National Football League .
41-591: In the 1957 season the New York Daily News , a major New York city tabloid, ran an article and sketches of the New York Giants ' line consisting of ends Andy Robustelli and Jim Katcavage , and tackles Rosey Grier and Dick Modzelewski and a headline that read "A Fearsome Foursome." Announcer Van Patrick applied the nickname "Fearsome Foursome" to the Lions front four as early as 1960, when
82-514: A sports section, and an opinion section. News-gathering operations were, for a time, organized by staff using two-way radios operating on 173.3250 MHz (radio station KEA 871), allowing the assignment desk to communicate with its reporters who used a fleet of "radio cars". Excelling in sports coverage, prominent sports cartoonists have included Bill Gallo , Bruce Stark , and Ed Murawinski . Columnists have included Walter Kaner . Editorial cartoonists have included C. D. Batchelor . In 1948,
123-819: A 51-10 thumping of the Boston Patriots . Still later, Rosey Grier was acquired from the New York Giants in 1963 to join Lamar Lundy , Merlin Olsen and Deacon Jones as the Los Angeles Rams starting defensive line. They also became known as the Fearsome Foursome , and the greater publicity garnered by the NFL leads many to assume they were the originals. Dick Butkus called them "the most dominant line in football history." They gained fame as
164-522: A Monday-Friday afternoon counterpart, Daily News Tonight , between August 19, 1980, and August 28, 1981; this competed with the New York Post , which had launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper in 1978. Occasional "P.M. Editions" were published as extras in 1991, during the brief tenure of Robert Maxwell as publisher. From August 10, 1978, to November 5, 1978, the multi-union 1978 New York City newspaper strike shut down
205-772: A Republican primary debate, the News responded with a cover page headline reading "DROP DEAD, TED" and showing the Statue of Liberty giving the middle finger . The Daily News supported the Iraq War . On March 14, 2003, six days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq , the Daily News reported " President Bush is targeting an aggressive, dangerous, psychotic dictator who has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and would use them without compunction. ... With Saddam in power, there can be no peace. One argument you hear raised against war
246-478: A day. As of 2019, it was the eleventh-highest circulated newspaper in the United States. (Today's Daily News is not connected to the earlier New York Daily News , which shut down in 1906.) For much of the 20th century, the paper operated out of the historic art deco Daily News Building with its large globe in the lobby. The Daily News is owned by parent company Daily News Enterprises. This company
287-478: Is fear of retaliation: America mustn't upset the terrorists. After 9/11 , does this even need to be rebutted? Terrorists have killed thousands of Americans already and thirst for more. Fighting back is a necessity, unless people want the peace of the grave." On December 20, 2016, Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman compared the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov , to
328-517: Is now the world headquarters of the Associated Press and is part of Manhattan West . In June 2011, the paper moved its operations to two floors at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan. Sixteen months later, the structure was severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable by flooding from Hurricane Sandy . In the immediate aftermath, news operations were conducted remotely from several temporary locations, eventually moving to office space at
369-536: Is owned by Alden Global Capital and was formed when Alden, which also owns news media publisher Digital First Media , purchased then-owner Tribune Publishing in May 2021 and then separated the Daily News from Tribune to form Daily News Enterprises upon the closing of the Tribune acquisition. The Illustrated Daily News was founded by Patterson and his cousin, Robert R. McCormick . The two were co-publishers of
410-673: The Chicago Tribune and grandsons of Tribune Company founder Joseph Medill . as an imitation of the successful British newspaper Daily Mirror . When Patterson and McCormick could not agree on the editorial content of the Chicago paper, the two cousins decided at a meeting in Paris that Patterson would work on the project of launching a Tribune-owned newspaper in New York . On his return, Patterson met with Alfred Harmsworth , who
451-403: The Daily News ' s editorial stance as "flexibly centrist" with a "high-minded, if populist, legacy". In contrast to its sister publication, the Chicago Tribune , the Daily News was pro-Roosevelt, endorsing him in 1932, 1936, and 1940. It broke from the president, however, in 1941 over foreign policy. From the 1940s through the 1960s, the Daily News espoused conservative populism. By
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#1732790991981492-444: The Daily News focuses heavily on "deep sourcing and doorstep reporting", providing city-centered "crime reportage and hard-hitting coverage of public issues [...] rather than portraying New York through the partisan divide between liberals and conservatives". According to Feuer, the paper is known for "speaking to and for the city's working class" and for "its crusades against municipal misconduct". The New York Times has described
533-433: The Daily News front page read "JFK Had a Monica", reporting historian Robert Dallek 's book on JFK's affair with a White House intern—long before the infamous Clinton-Lewinsky scandal just five years prior to the publication, and in turn, compelled the former intern, Mimi Alford , to came forward, and then Daily News ran another front page title on May 16, 2003, read "Mimi Breaks Her Silence", and then another article
574-579: The News established WPIX (Channel 11 in New York City), whose call letters were based on the News ' s nickname of "New York's Picture Newspaper"; and later bought what became WPIX-FM, which is now known as WFAN-FM . The television station became a Tribune property outright in 1991, and remains in the former Daily News Building. The radio station was purchased by Emmis Communications , and since 2014 has been owned by CBS Radio as an FM simulcast of its AM namesake . The paper briefly published
615-480: The News seceded from his publishing empire which soon splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it. Existing management, led by editor James Willse , held the News together in bankruptcy; Willse became interim publisher after buying the paper from the Tribune Company. Mort Zuckerman bought the paper in 1993. The News at one time maintained local bureaus in
656-536: The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his multi-part series of columns (published in 1997) on Abner Louima , who was sodomized and tortured by New York City police officers . In 2007 , the News' editorial board, which comprised Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub , and Heidi Evans, won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for a series of thirteen editorials, published over five months, that detailed how more than 12,000 rescue workers who responded after
697-502: The September 11 attacks had become ill from toxins in the air . The Pulitzer citation said that the award was given to the paper "for its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of Ground Zero workers, whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation." In 2017, the Daily News was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in collaboration with non-profit ProPublica "for uncovering, primarily through
738-821: The 1979 season. The line was documented in NFL Network 's A Football Life , and was narrated by Josh Charles . New York Daily News The New York Daily News , officially titled the Daily News , is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey . It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson in New York City as the Illustrated Daily News . It was the first U.S. daily printed in tabloid format . It reached its peak circulation in 1947, at 2.4 million copies
779-494: The 42nd Street location is still known as The News Building and still features a giant globe and weather instruments in its lobby. (It was the model for the Daily Planet building of the first two Superman films). The former News subsidiary WPIX-TV remains in the building. The subsequent headquarters of the Daily News at 450 West 33rd Street straddled the railroad tracks going into Pennsylvania Station . The building
820-702: The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. The newspaper still shares offices at City Hall , and within One Police Plaza with other news agencies. In January 2012, former News of the World and New York Post editor Colin Myler was appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily News . Myler was replaced by his deputy Jim Rich in September 2015. As of May 2016 , it was the ninth-most widely circulated daily newspaper in
861-778: The Chargers for two years before eventually reuniting with Allen himself on the Redskins in 1974. Bacon left in 1973. After missing the playoffs from 1970 to 1972, the Rams won seven straight division titles from 1973 to 1979, which was an NFL record until 2016 when broken by the New England Patriots. Those Rams teams were led in part by a reconstituted Fearsome Foursome. This line consisted of ends Jack Youngblood and Fred Dryer , and tackles Olsen and Larry Brooks . Youngblood and Olsen are NFL Hall of Famers while Brooks made
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#1732790991981902-597: The Jersey City printing plant. In early 2013, operations moved to rented space at 1290 Avenue of the Americas near Rockefeller Center —just four blocks north of its rival New York Post . The staff returned to the permanent 4 New York Plaza location in early November 2013. In August 2020, the Daily News closed its Manhattan headquarters. In 1993, the Daily News consolidated its printing facilities near Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey . In 2009,
943-831: The Lion defensive line consisted of ends Bill Glass and Darris McCord , and tackles Alex Karras and Roger Brown . The term was also used for the Detroit Lions defensive line after Sam Williams replaced Glass, who was traded to the Browns after the 1961 season. The nickname "Fearsome Foursome" was also used to describe the American Football League 's San Diego Chargers ' defensive front four, including starters DE Ron Nery , DT Bill Hudson , DT Ernie Ladd , and DE Earl Faison . The Chargers moved to San Diego in 1961, and Faison made overall AFL Rookie of
984-530: The October 30, 1975 Daily News read: "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD". Ford later said the headline had played a role in his losing the 1976 presidential election . On November 16, 1995, the Daily News front page displayed an illustration of Newt Gingrich as a baby in a diaper with the headline "Crybaby" following revelations that Gingrich had shut down the government in retaliation for a perceived snub from Bill Clinton aboard Air Force One . On May 12, 2003,
1025-639: The Pro Bowl 5 times. Dryer, acquired from the Giants in 1972, also made the Pro Bowl once, and set an NFL record with 2 safeties in one game vs. the Packers. Olsen, who played with his brother Phil Olsen for 4 seasons from 1971 to 1974, retired after a 15-year career at the end of the 1976 season. He was replaced by Mike Fanning , who with Youngblood, Dryer and Brooks started in Super Bowl XIV following
1066-495: The Rams went from a perennial under .500 team to an NFL powerhouse under coach George Allen . Roger Brown replaced Grier in 1967, and Diron Talbert replaced Brown in 1970. Also in 1970 Coy Bacon replaced Lamar Lundy. The line was ultimately broken up when George Allen became coach of the Washington Redskins in 1971; Talbert and Jones left in 1972, with Talbert following Allen to the Redskins, and Jones going to
1107-526: The United States . In 2019, it was ranked eleventh. On September 4, 2017, Tronc (now Tribune Publishing ), the publishing operations of the former Tribune Company (which had spun out its publishing assets to separate them from its broadcast assets), announced that it had acquired the Daily News . Tronc had bought the Daily News for $ 1, assuming "operational and pension liabilities". By the time of purchase, circulation had dropped to 200,000 on weekdays and 260,000 on Sundays. In July 2018, Tronc fired half of
1148-535: The Year, a rare feat for a defensive player. Alternate members of the group included DE Bob Petrich , DT George Gross , and DE - DT Henry Schmidt . At the time Gross and Ladd were two of the largest and strongest men in professional football. The Chargers' Foursome helped them reach the first two American Football League Championship games and five altogether, winning the AFL Championship in 1963 with
1189-1383: The assassination of Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Jewish student Herschel Grynszpan , saying "justice has been served." Russia has demanded an official apology from Daily News . Since 2018, the Daily News has prevented internet users in the European Union from accessing its website, on grounds of missing data protection compliance. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NBC News Wall Street Journal Politico MSNBC / CNBC / Telemundo Bloomberg Government Washington Examiner Boston Globe / Washington Blade Fox News CBS News Radio AP Radio / PBS VOA Time Yahoo! News Daily Caller / EWTN CBS News Bloomberg News McClatchy NY Post / TheGrio Washington Times Salem Radio / CBN Cheddar News / Hearst TV AP NPR Foreign pool The Hill Regionals Newsmax Gray TV / Spectrum News ABC News Washington Post Agence France-Presse Fox Business / Fox News Radio CSM / Roll Call Al Jazeera Nexstar / Scripps News Reuters NY Times LA Times Univision / AURN RealClearPolitics Daily Beast / Dallas Morning News BBC / Newsweek Mike Fanning (American football) Too Many Requests If you report this error to
1230-413: The close of the deal, the Daily News was transferred to a separate company owned by Alden, Daily News Enterprises. In September 2021, editor Robert York left and was replaced on an interim basis by Andrew Julien, who also serves as the editor and publisher of The Hartford Courant . The paper was also printed in a Sunday edition called Sunday News . The New York Times journalist Alan Feuer said
1271-464: The mid-1970s however, it began shifting its stance, and during the 1990s, it gained a reputation as a moderately liberal alternative to the conservative Post (which until 1980 had been a Democratic bastion). The newspaper endorsed Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama in 2008, Republican Mitt Romney in 2012, Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. From its founding, it
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1312-652: The newspaper's logo from day one. It became one of the first newspapers in New York City to employ a woman as a staff photographer in 1942 when Evelyn Straus was hired. The paper's later slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is "New York's Hometown Newspaper", while another was "The Eyes, the Ears, the Honest Voice of New York". The Daily News continues to include large and prominent photographs , for news, entertainment, and sports, as well as intense city news coverage, celebrity gossip , classified ads , comics ,
1353-412: The next day titled "JFK & MIMI: Why It Matters." In the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election , the paper's headlines became more provocative, helping to rejuvenate it, and with more opinionated editorials with the aforementioned headlines, once again in an effort to demonstrate its place in the city's media. Following the 2015 San Bernardino shooting , in which 14 people were killed,
1394-563: The paper spent $ 150 million on printing presses as part of its change to full-color photographs. In 2011, the company spent $ 100 million to buy three new presses, using a $ 41.7 million Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit from the State of New Jersey . In 2022, the company plans to close its Jersey City printing plant and outsource its printing operations to North Jersey Media Group. The Daily News has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes . In 1998 , Daily News columnist Mike McAlary won
1435-470: The paper's editorial staff, including the editor-in-chief, Jim Rich. Rich was replaced by Robert York, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tronc-owned The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The paper's social media staff were included in the cut; images and memes that were later deleted were posted on its Twitter feed. Tribune Publishing was acquired by Alden Global Capital in May 2021. Upon
1476-530: The paper's front page displayed "GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS" along with tweets from Republican politicians offering thoughts and prayers . The paper advocated for tighter gun laws , condemning what it described as "empty platitudes and angry rhetoric" rather than action "in response to the ongoing plague of gun violence in our country." The provocative headline received both praise and criticism. In January 2016, after Republican senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz of Texas disparaged "New York values" in
1517-484: The tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew. By the time of the paper's first anniversary in June 1920, circulation had climbed over 100,000 and by 1925 over a million. Circulation reached its peak in 1947, at 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday. The Daily News carried the slogan "New York's Picture Newspaper" from 1920 to 1991 for its emphasis on photographs. A camera has been part of
1558-434: The three major New York City newspapers. No editions of the News were printed during this time. In 1982 and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the Daily News almost went out of business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale. In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the News to help it stay in business. Upon his death later that year,
1599-487: The work of reporter Sarah Ryley , widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities." In 1928, a News reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in the electric chair . The next day's newspaper carried the headline "DEAD!". On October 29, 1975, President Gerald Ford gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York City from bankruptcy. The front page of
1640-563: Was based at 25 City Hall Place, just north of City Hall , and close to Park Row , the traditional home of the city's newspaper trade. In 1921 it moved to 23 Park Place, which was in the same neighborhood. The cramped conditions demanded a much larger space for the growing newspaper. From 1929 to 1995, the Daily News was based in 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, an official city and national landmark designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood . The paper moved to 450 West 33rd Street (also known as 5 Manhattan West ) in 1995, but
1681-585: Was the Viscount Northcliffe and publisher of the Daily Mirror , London's tabloid newspaper. Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid, Patterson launched the Daily News on June 24, 1919 as Illustrated Daily News . The Daily News was owned by the Tribune Company until 1993. The Daily News was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625. Still, many of New York's subway commuters found