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New York TimesStill, the local media is wrestling with how to avoid allowing coverage of one candidate to eclipse the rest of the field, even if Mr. Yang is not in the same ideological universe as Donald Trump, said Jere Hester, the editor in chief of the nonprofit news organization The City.
Theres a residual wariness among the media about being careful not to uncritically help elevate someone whos more celebrity than proven public servant, he said.
The rise of Mr. Yang, like an optimistic helium balloon, has been disconcerting to the denizens of New Yorks once-savage media-political scene. The New York mayoralty used to be one of the great prizes in American politics, won by candidates tough enough to survive the second-fiercest press corps in the country, after the White House. But local news here, as everywhere, has been in decline for years, and Michael Bloombergs billions showed that a candidate could sidestep the historically hostile gaggle of reporters and reach city voters through expensive television ads instead. Mayor Bill de Blasio, too, has brushed off fierce and unrelenting opposition from The Post, which despite being still lively and well-funded, has lost some of its killing power.
JuJuChen
(2,216 posts)dlk
(11,578 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Especially when, time after time, they prove to be disasters.
Government isn't a business.
Dorian Gray
(13,501 posts)He's all spectacle, no substance. And it irks me that he is most likely going to win this thing.
dlk
(11,578 posts)Yangs experience with a test prep company doesnt exactly qualify him to run a large, complicated city like New York. Would his supporters buy a ticket on a plane flown by a pilot whos never flown before? Too many people dont think these things through.
Polybius
(15,483 posts)Except for his final term, he was excellent.
dlk
(11,578 posts)Yang ran a test prep company. Their experience levels dont begin to compare. Someone can be likable and still not up for the job.
Renew Deal
(81,873 posts)Same reason DeBlasio won. And DeBlasio has plenty of experience.
dlk
(11,578 posts)I wonder if many are aware Yang favors school privatization. I like Yang, I just don't think he's remotely qualified to begin his political career with a top job, like an entry-level ceo.
Dorian Gray
(13,501 posts)and I think he comes across as a clueless jerk most of the time.
My candidate, KGforNYC, will lose. And I'm devastated that a competent and capable woman will lost to his demagoguery.
So what he stood on stage with other dem candidates in the primaries last year. But it's enough to put him over the top.
brooklynite
(94,737 posts)Suggests that Garcia may be a second round cho8ice in Ranked Choice Voting (esp if Stringer crashed and burns).
Dorian Gray
(13,501 posts)I think she's great. It would be great if ranked choice benefitted her! Stringer lost the WFP, so I think it's downhill for him. Curious if Willey can pick up steam.
Polybius
(15,483 posts)For years everyone assumed the job would be his. I'm voting for Yang, but I've always loved Adams.
brooklynite
(94,737 posts)This weekend, in the wake of the massacre at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams raised some eyebrows when he announced he would bring his own gun into houses of worship in the future, and encouraged off-duty officers to do the same. "I'm not going to live the way it ought to be, I'm going to live the way it is," he said at a news conference outside a Jewish family services center in Midwood on Sunday.
Adams's statement echoed something President Trump said after the deadly shooting: "If there was an armed guard inside the temple, they would have been able to stop him," he said. That assertion drew widespread condemnation, in part because armed officers did respond to the scene on Saturday, exchanging gunfire with alleged shooter Robert Bowers. Four on-duty officers in tactical gear were shot and injured, and Bowers was allegedly still able to kill 11 people with an AR-15-style assault rifle and at least three handguns.
https://gothamist.com/news/brooklyn-bp-eric-adams-explains-why-he-wants-armed-off-duty-officers-in-houses-of-worship
Dorian Gray
(13,501 posts)is a candidate who is popular in the non online world, and he may do better than we think. Not everyone is super "online" ala Yang. It'll be interesting to see how the ranked choice plays out here.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)You mad?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)neither impossible, might turn into a real boon for other cities as business and residents fled the latest NYC crisis. I don't worry about NYC "dying" as the press always predicts with its downturns, although it could take some years to reverse.
To have competent government, we have to elect competent people.
Renew Deal
(81,873 posts)Nor is she ever likely to. There wasnt any real justification for her campaign.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That she made the ballot at all was horrifying, though.
Like the presidency, no newcomer can ever be experienced enough to step in and run a major city.
If I could make candidates run with bags on their heads I would. God won't save us from ambitious power seekers whose only proven talent is for exciting people on the stump, so smart voters have to do it. The best we can do is choose from the best of those who ask for our vote. Biden had 8 years in Obama's WH following 40 years in federal government, no coincidence that he's as competent as he is.
Renew Deal
(81,873 posts)He has ideas he can communicate. That cant be said for most of the rest.