In defining its independence, the paper stated it would be neither "red, white, pink, right, left, or center" because such terms had been over-used, "squeezed like lemon rinds".
Most strongly, the newspaper said it would stop the "PM technique of combining editorial comment with news stories."
Some sources cite a final publication date of Friday, January 28, 1949 (see, e.g., Mary A. Hamilton's book Rising from the Wilderness: J. W. Gitt and His Legendary Newspaper, page 153).
[4] Max Lerner, a chief contributor of signed PM editorials in the past, would continue to contribute to the Star.
[1] Other contributors included I. F. Stone, Albert Deutsch, Alex Uhl,[4] as well as Myril Axelrod Bennett, Ted Thackrey, Walt Kelly (cartoonist who created Pogo), and Matilda Landsman.