De Blasio emails show mayor privately seething at press
Source: Politico
A trove of email correspondence between Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration and the consulting firm BerlinRosen released Thursday reveals the mayors disgust with the city's press corps.
The emails show an angry and petulant mayor reacting to criticism of him dating back to his first year in office. Aides are shown attempting to devise strategies that would allow the administration to get its message out without relying on reporters. The mayor's wife, Chirlane McCray, proposed that we create our own click-bait. Our own topical, lively, unconventional, sometimes fun, sometimes controversial content.
The mayor's testy relationship with the press has been well-documented. But the 4,251 pages of emails show the depth of the animus for specific news outlets, including The New York Times, and suggest an administration that felt itself under siege by what it perceived as hostile news coverage.
The mayor, his senior advisers and McCray disparage articles that criticize him and, at one point, suggest a prolonged paid media campaign instead of relying on earned media to write about the controversial issue of police reform.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2018/05/24/de-blasio-emails-show-mayor-privately-seething-at-press-436643
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)It's almost like the pursuit and maintenance of power brings out bad qualities in people...
pecosbob
(7,538 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)Does he do a public campaign to weaken the press? Does he make shit up and try to get people to believe it?
Why no. He complains privately. Horrors.
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)Tabloids compare hin to 🍊 as if he lies and steals and is a cruel misogynistic racist fuck!
Squinch
(50,949 posts)emissaries everywhere to spread the ridiculous comparison.
And yes, exactly. Who hacked him?
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)zzzz
4251 pages of e-mail and this is the Big Takeaway? That a Mayor is "petulant" about his Press coverage?
Wake me if they find corruption, bribery, treason, obstruction, harassment. Hell, I'm even up for a little sex scandal.
But privately disliking his Press coverage? Wanting a way to get his message out?
Ho Hum.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)We all have them... just some are foolish enough to write them down!!
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)I'm shocked to find there is gambling at this establishment.
A politician pleased with the press? That's called a "dictator".
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)This is engagement with public debate rather than #FakeNews tweets disparaging opponents with catchy names
Squinch
(50,949 posts)Gosh. How can we ever guess?
7962
(11,841 posts)Typical politician is what I see. NO criticism allowed.