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The big story was Mayor Adams’s announcement that he doesn’t need reporters asking nosey questions because he’s setting up his own newsletter!<\/p>\n

Never mind that the mayor already has an entire press operation issuing statements, speeches and wacky videos (click here<\/a> to read them all!). And forget the fact that people prefer getting their news from the media because we provide important (and sometimes inconvenient) context that you don’t get from press releases. Hizzoner says the public will be better served in signing up to get his regular updates rather than reading the local papers and its “distorted” view of him (read: we do indeed report on his failures as well as his successes).<\/p>\n

The story first broke (via the mayor’s press release) in amNY<\/a>, but several others covered it with a more jaded eye:<\/p>\n

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• The Daily News<\/a>\u00a0said the mayor has “grown increasingly cranky lately with how he\u2019s covered by the City Hall press corps.”<\/li>\n
• The Daily Beast<\/a> went even further, with a headline reading, “Thin-Skinned NYC Mayor Wants to Write His Own News Stories.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  In the end, others ignored the story, but plenty of pixel-pocked pundits weighed in on Twitter:<\/p>\n

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  Mayor Adams launches newsletter to counteract \u2018distorted\u2019 NYC press coverage
  Right on, Mayor Trump!
  ?@ericadamsfornyc<\/a>? ?@NYDailyNews<\/a>? ?@nypost<\/a>? ?@nytimes<\/a>? ?@NPR<\/a>? ?@bostonherald<\/a>? ?@Gannett<\/a>? ?@BostonGlobe<\/a>? https:\/\/t.co\/boPUilBqSu<\/a><\/p>\n

  — Charles Winokoor (@cwinokoor) January 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n