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WestView News

newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ18155734 ↗
Source-derived summary

The WestView News is a newspaper based in the West Village of Manhattan, New York, New York.

History

The WestView News was founded in 2003. Its CEO is George Capsis.

In July 2014, the WestView News stirred controversy when it published an article by James Lincoln Collier titled "Nigger in the White House". The article is critical of perceived racism in the far-right's opposition to then-President Barack Obama. After backlash, the newspaper issued a public apology.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with WestView, News and newspaper providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18155734. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “WestView News” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.