The New York Daily News and The New York Post both used the same photo to illustrate the devastation left by the tornado that hit Oklahoma yesterday. Ironically, though the captured moment is extremely sad, the woman carrying the child conveys hope.

If you’re wondering how you can help the tornado victims, here’s a nice roundup.

OJ Simpson is back in court this week and well, the man has put on a few pounds. As long as you mention this at least once today or tomorrow in a conversation, the New York Post and New York Daily News have done their jobs.

You can try a simple ”Man, OJ is huge!” Or if you’re feeling up to it, the more complex “OJ? More like ‘OK that’s enough cupcakes,’ am I right?” Either one should suffice.

When The New York Post idiotically plastered a photograph of El Houssein Barhoum’s son on its cover, labeling him and another man as “Bag Men,” Barhoum was outraged. His anger was understandable, because his son was being threatened and treated like the Boston Marathon bomber, all because of the Post’s reckless speculation. Now Barhoum has had enough. He is hiring a lawyer.

According to the Washington Post, Barhoum said his son only sleeps one or two hours a night now, and that he sometimes “refuses to go to school.” So Barhoum is seeking legal counsel, because “A lot of people, they tell me that’s your right to sue them.”

While suing the Post might prove to be difficult, we’re 100 percent behind Barhoum. We’re pulling for an out of court settlement that scores hims and his family millions. They do have one thing in their favor: News Corp. owned papers are fairly familiar with being taken to court. So at the very least, the Post should know the drill.

According to the new circulation report from the Alliance for Audited Media (AAM), The New York Times has been enjoying some success, but the New York Daily News and New York Post haven’t. For the period between March 31, 2012 and March 31, 2013, the Times’ circulation grew by 18 percent; while the Daily News and Post saw their numbers drop by 11 percent and 10 percent, respectively.

As of the end of last month, the Times had a circulation of 1,865,318, but that still wasn’t enough to take the top spot from the Wall Street Journal. The paper’s circulation experienced a solid 12 percent growth, and clocked in at 2,378,827.

Much like the Daily News (516,165) and Post (500,521), Newsday’s numbers left a lot to be desired. The Long Island daily saw circulation drop by five percent over the past year, down to 377,744.

Let the over celebration or casual dismissal of the numbers begin.

After several anonymous New York Times staffers complained that Jill Abramson had the audacity to act like a boss, despite being a female, where did the paper’s executive editor turn for solace? Astrology.

In an email to Slate, Abramson said The New York Post’s horoscope was all she needed:

The New York Post is looking worse and worse as the events unfold in Boston. Despite an attempt by Col Allan to defend the paper’s cover which portrayed two men as the Boston Marathon bombers (which we know now they are obviously not), and the Post backtracking on the story, this week has been rough for the tabloid. Which makes it a great week for the Post’s rival, the New York Daily News.

The Daily News took advantage of the bumbling Post by publishing a story about one of the men on the Post’s cover, Salah Barhoum. “It’s such a disaster,” he said. “To be blamed for all that injury and death. It’s the worst.” He also told the Daily News that he was being called racial slurs at school because of the Post’s photo. Barhoum’s father expressed outrage.

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According to The New York Post, things are happening. The things started one day and are expected to continue until another day. The Post’s editor, Col Allan, explained, “Every American should know about these things.” An anonymous law enforcement agent also expressed his concern, telling the Post in an email, “We have been discussing these things at length and are prepared to take some sort of action.”

The Post ran photos of the things on its cover this morning. The startling images grabbed readers’ attention immediately. “I’m worried, I can tell you that,” Bronx resident John Russo, told the paper. “I called my fiancee and told her about the things and she just started crying. I’m just glad the Post was brave enough to tell us all that these things were happening. I had no idea.”

FishbowlNY was unable to get any other news outlet to comment on the Post’s things exclusive. A spokesperson at The New York Times sighed heavily and then hung up on us, and Stephen Adler, editor-in-chief of Reuters, replied to our email with a cat gif.

[Editor's note: This is satire, yo]

Michael Wolff doesn’t exactly believe in the New York Post’s future. In a scathing column, Wolff declares that the Post is slowly dying and that it will perish before Rupert Murdoch does. Grim! Here are a few things that Wolff says point to the end of the tabloid:

• The upcoming News Corp. split. “As Murdoch gets ready to separate his newspapers from his richer entertainment holdings in a move that will force the papers to pay their own way, the Post’s day of reckoning nears.”
• Even Rupert Murdoch is losing faith in the paper. It has become “an increasingly sclerotic and gothic enterprise, full of aging figures.”
• “Robert Thompson, the Wall Street Journal editor, who will be the CEO of the new newspaper company, is openly contemptuous of Col Allen and the paper’s low-rent, cowboy atmosphere.” If Robert Thompson is mad at Col Allen, imagine how Robert Thomson feels about Col Allan!
• The paper is losing a ton of money. Wolff says it’s about $80 million per year, but we’ve heard estimates as high as $110 million.

The cover of today’s New York Post is why we can’t ever quit the paper. Anthony Weiner’s comeback is getting the rigid attention it deserves.

The New York Post is restructuring its sales team, and as we all know, anytime the “r word” is mentioned, layoffs are never far behind. Capital New York reports that as a result of the moves, a total of nine Post staffers were let go from the paper’s marketing and promotions, ad sales, and tele-sales departments.

The changes, according to a memo from the Post’s publisher, Jesse Angelo, are designed to “modernize” the paper’s organization:

Accordingly, today sales marketing and digital ad operations are being moved directly into the sales department to create a more integrated team. This will also free up the rest of the marketing department to be completely focused on a bolstered consumer marketing effort. In addition, the feedback you all gave us during the past few weeks made clear that we need a less tiered sales structure. To that end, we are reconfiguring some managerial roles to flatten our organization. We are also adopting better results-based compensation policies.

As for those let go? Angelo wrote that “We are very appreciative of their efforts on behalf of the Post and in order to assist them with their transition, we have provided each of them with severance packages reflective of their years of service.”