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Good points all, but one of the reasons the Times is, at best, meh on DiBlasio is that he came from nowhere and beat their Golden Gal Christine Quinn. The Times moonlights as a real estate conglomerate and while she was something of a housing advocate and anti-SMALL landlord activist, she was also a supporter of the the kind of big-ass, city-wrecking, Eminent Domain-threatening stuff the Times is invested in, or has an interest in seeing happen — Times Square Disneyfication, Atlantic Yards, St. Vincent's Condos, etc.

Another thing is that they played a big role in anointing her early on and so it was an embarrassment to see their endorsement didn't turn out to mean shit, even among their most loyal readers on the UWS and in Park Slope and such. As a DiBlasio supporter (the minute he started talking class warfare), I was stunned by how lopsided their coverage was as soon as he started getting traction. Proof they can't let it go, they even filmed an elegy for her campaign that's so unbelievably gauzy and tone-deaf that you'd think she was a long lost Sulzberger cousin. (Look it up, worth watching just for the WTFness of it.) According to them it was the anti-Central Park horse folks and her sexuality that doomed her (in Park Slope, that hotbed of homophobia), not the fact that she seemed to share several major organs with Big Daddy Bloomberg and had sold out just about everything she claimed to be in office for to pursue the mayor's office with Bloomberg and the rest of the 1%'s backing. (And that she was a stunningly unlikeable person — which, granted, shouldn't have been an issue after 20 years of the Giuliani-Bloomberg trollship, but we do live in a sexist world.)

The good news is that all this piddly stuff seems to roll off DiBlasio pretty easy, at least among the same people who voted him in, even as he goes center-left trying to go along to get along with Cuomo and appoints Giuliani's old gestapo captain. The people who hated him are gonna keep hating him even if he cures AIDS and gives every New Yorker a condo in the Village for $50k. If the best they can come up with is that his driver ran a stop sign, he eats pizza like a fag, and he killed a fucking woodchuck, I'm not too worried about his prospects for a second term.

As implied, I'm pretty sure this year's Groundhog Day spectacle will repeat itself if something doesn't change.

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kafrometMount_Prion
9/25/14 11:03am
As implied, I'm pretty sure this year's Groundhog Day spectacle will repeat itself if something doesn't change.
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Mount_Prionkafromet
9/25/14 1:00pm
This is the most brilliant damn comment ever. And I'm not saying that because I particularly like my original one.

Between the Post being the Post, Mort Zuckerman's contempt for any Democrat who comes within 100 yards of talking about income inequality, and The New York Times being largely ineffectual on local news (not to mention, unhealthily obsessed with reporting "both sides"), I can't remember a time a politician has seen so many media hit pieces without any press backing AT ALL.

The rabid right goes after Obama at least he has a sophisticated media machine to push back, Di Blasio is just kinda there with his dick in hands while these BS "scandals" roll in one after the other.

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Telegram SamAdamJohnsonNYC
9/25/14 2:09pm
Good points all, but one of the reasons the Times is, at best, meh on DiBlasio is that he came from nowhere and beat their Golden Gal Christine Quinn. The Times moonlights as a real estate conglomerate and while she was something of a housing advocate and anti-SMALL landlord activist, she was also a supporter of the the kind of big-ass, city-wrecking, Eminent Domain-threatening stuff the Times is invested in, or has an interest in seeing happen — Times Square Disneyfication, Atlantic Yards, St. Vincent's Condos, etc.

Another thing is that they played a big role in anointing her early on and so it was an embarrassment to see their endorsement didn't turn out to mean shit, even among their most loyal readers on the UWS and in Park Slope and such. As a DiBlasio supporter (the minute he started talking class warfare), I was stunned by how lopsided their coverage was as soon as he started getting traction. Proof they can't let it go, they even filmed an elegy for her campaign that's so unbelievably gauzy and tone-deaf that you'd think she was a long lost Sulzberger cousin. (Look it up, worth watching just for the WTFness of it.) According to them it was the anti-Central Park horse folks and her sexuality that doomed her (in Park Slope, that hotbed of homophobia), not the fact that she seemed to share several major organs with Big Daddy Bloomberg and had sold out just about everything she claimed to be in office for to pursue the mayor's office with Bloomberg and the rest of the 1%'s backing. (And that she was a stunningly unlikeable person — which, granted, shouldn't have been an issue after 20 years of the Giuliani-Bloomberg trollship, but we do live in a sexist world.)

The good news is that all this piddly stuff seems to roll off DiBlasio pretty easy, at least among the same people who voted him in, even as he goes center-left trying to go along to get along with Cuomo and appoints Giuliani's old gestapo captain. The people who hated him are gonna keep hating him even if he cures AIDS and gives every New Yorker a condo in the Village for $50k. If the best they can come up with is that his driver ran a stop sign, he eats pizza like a fag, and he killed a fucking woodchuck, I'm not too worried about his prospects for a second term.