We Need To Wash Our Hands of The NY Post and it’s anti-OCD Bigotry
The Post has always preyed on suffering, but attacking OCD sufferers is disgusting.
I’ve had my issues with the New York Post1. It’s a publication only in the most charitable sense of the word. It is literally published. In all other respects, the Post is the platonic ideal of one man’s quest to profit off of the kind of human suffering and drama he enjoys with his own family. The formula is as ancient as public crucifixion—the more horrible the spectacle, the more valuable to Caesar—sorry, Rupert. The following OCD-themed piece got through a recent pitch meeting:
No, I’m not confusing the New York Post with The Atlantic. If it’s not about Angels, Heroes, Tots, Pervs, or Bozos, it probably doesn’t belong in the Post.
Comedian John Mulaney explains the Post’s obsessive hierarchy of virtue: