{"id":406130,"date":"2022-02-16T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mayor-eric-adams-claims-white-journalists-misrepresent-him\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:58:07","slug":"mayor-eric-adams-claims-white-journalists-misrepresent-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mayor-eric-adams-claims-white-journalists-misrepresent-him\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mayor Eric Adams claims white journalists misrepresent him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Mayor Eric Adams claims white journalists misrepresent him<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams unloaded Tuesday in an epic rant in which he threatened to stop fielding \u201coff-topic\u201d questions at his press conferences \u2014 and blasted the Big <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> organizations over what he said was their lack of racial diversity.<\/p>\n<p>The scolding, which came before an unrelated press conference on summer youth employment efforts, appeared to be sparked by coverage of his failed bid to get state lawmakers to budge on his anti-crime agenda \u2014 although the mayor failed to convey how race factored into that.<\/p>\n<p>One day after meeting with Albany lawmakers in what he all but admitted was a failed attempt to roll back recent criminal-justice reforms, Adams claimed that accounts of his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, none of which touched on race, were unfairly negative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to acknowledge or not, I have been doing a darn good job and we just can\u2019t live in this alternate reality,\u201d a clearly angered Adams said. <\/p>\n<p>Adams also warned that if the coverage of him doesn\u2019t improve, \u201cI\u2019m just going to come in and do my announcements and bounce.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press in the New York State Capitol on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 in Albany, New York.\" class=\"wp-image-21222199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor Adams threatened to stop fielding \u201coff-topic\u201d questions at his news conferences.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Angus Mordant for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Adams repeatedly suggested that race played a factor in news coverage of him, telling\u00a0an almost all-white group of reporters who\u00a0were hand-picked by his office and invited to cover the City Hall news conference, \u201cI\u2019m a black man that\u2019s the\u00a0mayor but\u00a0my story is being interpreted by people that don\u2019t look like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many blacks are on editorial boards? How many blacks determine how these stories are being written?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many Asians? How many East Asians? How many South Asians? Everyone talks about my government being diversified, what\u2019s the diversification in the newsrooms?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams also accused the reporters of \u201cwriting through your prisms\u201d before adding: \u201cDiversify your newsrooms so I can look out and see people who look like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press in the New York State Capitol on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 in Albany, New York.\" class=\"wp-image-21222215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-2-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor Adams suggested that race is playing a factor in the news coverage of him.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Angus Mordant for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recounting his trip to Albany, Adams said, \u201cI went to the Assembly conference. People raised the issues that they had and we talked.\u00a0Black mayor, black Speaker, black majority leader, coming together and talking to each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you would have turned on the news this morning, you would have said, \u2018It was all hell up there,\u2019 \u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to figure out \u2013 do you guys already write the stories before I do something and just print out what you\u2019ve already written?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI\u2019m going to stop doing off-topics because if you already have your perception of me \u2013 and you are already going to stick to what you think I am \u2014 then why am I doing this?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-3-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mayor Eric Adams speaks to the press in the New York State Capitol on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 in Albany, New York.\" class=\"wp-image-21222228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-3-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-3-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/eric-adams-3-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201c\u201cI\u2019m a black man that\u2019s the\u00a0mayor but\u00a0my story is being interpreted by people that don\u2019t look like me,\u201d Adams told reporters.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Michael Appleton\/Mayoral Photogr<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A veteran of the previous administration told The Post that Adams appeared to be \u201ctaking a page out of Bill de Blasio\u2019s playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t work for him,\u201d the source said of the notoriously thin-skinned de Blasio, who frequently responded to negative coverage by attacking the city\u2019s press corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see how well it works for Eric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Democratic political consultant Hank Sheinkopf also said that playing the race card wasn\u2019t a wise move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEric Adam\u2019s mayoralty will rest entirely on crime control. He\u2019s not getting the help he needs in Albany, he\u2019s frustrated, he\u2019s angry and he\u2019s taking it out\u00a0on the press,\u201d Sheinkopf said. \u201cAnd talk of race will not help him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Democratic strategist said of Adams, \u201cNow that he\u2019s been lightly dinged by the press, he\u2019s finally learning what it\u2019s like to be mayor of New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former de Blasio press secretary Bill Neidhardt also said, \u201cIf this is what gets him upset, wait until it\u2019s six times larger and smacked on the front of both\u00a0tabs and he\u2019ll start to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot every story can be about your smoothies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>On Monday, Adams appeared to give up on his attempts to convince Albany Democrats to help him fight crime following a closed-door meeting in Albany. <\/p>\n<p>Adams told reporters he \u201cshared\u201d his plan to fight crime in the Big Apple before adding, \u201cIf I am not getting the things I laid out \u2026 I still have an obligation to keep the city safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That came after Assemblywoman Latrice Walker (D-Brooklyn) \u2014 who last week clashed with Adams over his desire to let judges lock up defendants they deem dangerous \u2014 said that \u201cwe are gonna hold the line\u201d on criminal justice reforms enacted in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Gov. Kathy Hochul\u00a0said the bail reform law likely wouldn\u2019t be addressed until after the March 31 budget deadline, after\u00a0she last month declared\u00a0that she won\u2019t \u201ccave to pressure\u201d to enact tough-on-crime measures\u00a0Adams\u00a0and\u00a0others have recently backed.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Andrea Stewart-Cousins\u00a0unequivocally rejected  Adams\u2019\u00a0push to toughen the state\u2019s bail law.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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