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 mayor’s 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.
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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.
