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Has New York City mayor taken a page out of the Silicon Valley playbook? Complaining that the media doesn’t cover him accurately and that he no longer knows who is writing opinion and who is reporting facts, Eric Adams said last week he will launch a newsletter to “speak directly to New Yorkers.”
Local news has covered Adams extensively during his first term in office. Not all that coverage has been rosy; it’s included Adams’ issues with his Brooklyn residency, his handling of asylum seekers and his policy priorities.
According to Adams, this has resulted in a “distorted” version of what he does and says. That’s a common refrain among a certain set, one that has led to a series of attempts over the past couple of years to launch their