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De Blasio Throws More Blows at Media, While Insisting He’s Not Like Trump

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On Friday, May 25, Mayor Bill de Blasio hosted a press conference inside the press room at City Hall, during which the mayor insisted he has nothing in common with President Donald Trump, while reinforcing his Trump-like attacks on the news media in New York City.

De Blasio raged, “Donald Trump has spent his entire life trying to divide people, he’s a rich guy who’s tried to reinforce the power of the wealthy. I have spent my whole life trying to support and empower everyday people, working people, people who have been left out. I have a progressive, left-wing critique of the media — I think it’s the corporate media that in too many ways is not telling the larger truth of our society. Donald Trump has a right-wing, anti-media attitude that’s trying to reinforce the powerful rights and prerogatives in this country.”

This press conference was held just one day after a court order required City Hall to release several emails in which de Blasio privately ranted about even the mildest media coverage of himself and his administration. One email revealed that the mayor went as far as to hope for the “demise” of the New York Post.

Most were expecting an apology from de Blasio at the press conference, but instead the democrat mayor reinforced and added to his attack on the credibility of the media. He complained that the press in the city spend way too little time reporting on his achievements, and de Blasio insisted that an inherent bias exists in ‘corporate media” by their owners.

He stated, “I do not see enough about the recognition of the things that are working and that are affecting huge number of people.” However, de Blasio also conceded to the fact that he needs to learn how to “communicate a message more clearly.”

According to The Post, “He said his gripe is not with the individuals in the press pack, but rather their companies — yet proceeded to question reporters’ ‘version of the facts’ and blame their ‘sensationalized’ stories for his own lack of transparency.”

At the press conference, de Blasio said, “We started with an immense amount of access, including right in front of my house when I was shoveling snow … [and] some people abused that, in my opinion. Evident truths were not reported along with the negatives.”

In addition, he placed part of the blame on the press, for the revelation, revealed by his emails, that the mayor and his staff spend an exorbitant amount of time working and worrying about the mayor’s image.

The mayor said, “It’s part of life, guys — you have to think about how things are perceived including because of the tabloid culture, how things will be warped out of all possible meaning and you have to defend against that, so of course people have to put time into that.”

By Hannah Hayes

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