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Lotta conspiracies all around

artappraiser — Sat, 26 May 2018 01:45:11 +0000

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Lotta conspiracies all around https://t.co/m3PENPHMQk
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 25, 2018

The point of our lawsuit wasn’t to find out that the mayor hates the media; most mayors do. We wanted to learn more about the role of a prominent consultant in city government and how it affected decisions made by City Hall. It’s less sexy and a lot more important.
— Bob Hardt (@bobhardt) May 25, 2018

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Bill de Blasio’s emails full

artappraiser — Sat, 26 May 2018 01:26:51 +0000

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Bill de Blasio’s emails full of anger at and disdain for reporters went public, so he did a press conference to express his anger at and disdain for reporters https://t.co/mQ44RUa9HG
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) May 25, 2018

Journalism: The pay sucks and the hours are long. But at the end of the day, everybody hates you. https://t.co/CXqgnXYEyA
— Ben Chapman (@NYDNBenChapman) May 25, 2018

the related editorial:

artappraiser — Sat, 26 May 2018 01:12:00 +0000

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the related editorial, with today's print cover page as its illustration

Bill de Blasio, mayor of fantasyland: His utterly delusional rant against the 'corporate media' and 'tabloid culture'

By EDITORIALS

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | MAY 25, 2018 | 3:12 PM

Where's the part that quotes

barefooted — Sat, 26 May 2018 00:58:47 +0000

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Where's the part that quotes De Blasio?

And thanks for the heads up about the source, I would never have guessed.

Excerpt:

artappraiser — Sat, 26 May 2018 00:53:07 +0000

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Excerpt:

[....] After an August 2015 story in The Wall Street Journal, the mayor thought made him look bad, political consultant Del Cecato suggested a tactic to fight back utilized by President Trump — go after people via vitriolic tweets.

"Maybe I'm channeling Louis CK here but I feel people on the outside (like me) should be assigned a duty like going after our opponents and just delivering that via Twitter," Del Cecato wrote.

The mayor's then-press secretary, Phil Walzak then referenced a notorious Republican tactic from the Watergate playbook known as "ratf---ing."

The term was used in the 1970s by Richard Nixon's reelection committee flunkies to describe pranks designed to secretly attack Democrats.

Walzak replied, "Yeah I like that. You can be outside rat...r on twitter."

"Happy to do it," Del CeCato replied. "Just let me know when I start."

The release of emails from January 2014 into 2017 marked a total reversal for the mayor, who had city lawyers spend untold hours aggressively fighting to keep them secret [....]