true, but i'm sure that NY Post has more subscribers than NY Times, so if his goal was to reach the largest possible audience, perhaps NY Post was an appropriate venue
This isn't true. According to Wikipedia, the NY Times has 876,638 daily/1,352,358 Sunday subscribers [0] while the NY Post has 525,000/343,361 [1]
Not to be snobbish, but the NY Post is considered a working class paper. Usually bought by those more interested in the funnies, movie times, and local sports, than say international affairs or ramblings about AI.