Who’s afraid of the huge, bad New York Post? Zohran – Latest News
Zohran Mamdani refused — again — to take any public questions from Post reporters on Monday, persevering with a clear coverage even when his marketing campaign doesn’t care to confess it.
What is he afraid of?
It’d be one factor if the Democratic mayoral nominee merely refused to interact with The Post’s columnists and editorial board.
But we’re speaking about his perspective towards our information facet — which, with the industry’s basic decline, at this level is the major local-news gathering operation left in New York City.
His crew final despatched us a public schedule the day he returned from Uganda (July 30); earlier than that, it’s a must to go back to April.
Nor did they alert us to Monday’s occasion with Sen. Liz Warren (although they did verify it once we requested).
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Perhaps he’s taking cues from former Mayor Bill de Blasio, who as soon as tried to ban The Post from all information conferences as a result of he didn’t like our questions.
To be honest, we’re seeing a bit more response from the marketing campaign because it staffs up: On Monday, it even gave our reporters a response to some questions.
But the candidate himself doesn’t appear to be on board: He final referred to as on a Post reporter at a press convention on June 20, earlier than the Democratic major.
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He ignored us at his July 30 convention on the Midtown capturing, and again Monday during the Warren presser.
Mamdani definitely is aware of we’re right here, and even realizes we’re a half of the metropolis scene — heck, he’s even taken our identify in useless by offering up his proposed Post headlines. Most of them had been horrible, although UGANDA MISS ME wasn’t bad.
Perhaps he thinks we don’t matter for profitable in November, and that’s his solely focus; possibly we simply don’t match into his media strategy.
Or possibly he refuses to risk questions he’s sure he received’t need to hear.
He’d be incorrect on any of these factors, however the final one can be the largest mistake — as a result of he’s that reluctant to be grilled even in the slightest, he can’t probably succeed as mayor.
Which is bad information for all New York — and worse information for Mamdani’s followers than his critics.
