Reporters Ask the Mayor: The Mayor Versus the Media, When NYPD Engage and More
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Laird on WNYC, now as usual on Wednesdays after Mayor Adams' weekly Tuesday news conference, |
| 0:17.4 | our lead city hall reporter, Elizabeth Kim. It's only that one time a week when reporters can ask about |
| 0:22.8 | topics of their choosing, not just the mayor's choosing. And yesterday's session was pretty |
| 0:27.8 | contentious as these things go after some leaders of the NYPD use their social media to post |
| 0:34.6 | derisive comments about members of the media |
| 0:38.2 | who've dared to be critical of the department. |
| 0:41.2 | These were largely focused on an article by daily news columnist Harry Siegel |
| 0:46.2 | and a tough interview that Mayor Adam Scott on the nationally syndicated radio show, |
| 0:51.8 | The Breakfast Club, from lawyer and activist Oliyemi O'Lurin. Here's a 30-second excerpt of that. I didn't put the National Guards in the subway. The governor did. I know, but I know what you said. But you said, Eric. You stood with Governor Kathy Hokel and you co-signed that decision. You did. And I'm not saying this as someone who's following social media. I'm saying that as an attorney in the city and an activist who follows everything that you do. |
| 1:14.0 | If you, I'm glad you do. Then you realize how I turned the city around. If you follow everything, I do, you realize that I would say no, but we could get to that next. Loosen up your time, you, Adam. It'll be a long day. All right, a sample from the Breakfast Club there, and that actually went on for quite a while. |
| 1:30.6 | Elizabeth Kim. It'll be a long day. All right, a sample from the Breakfast Club there, and that actually went on for quite a while. |
| 1:30.6 | Elizabeth Kim here. |
| 1:32.3 | Hi, Liz. |
| 1:32.8 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 1:33.8 | Good morning, Brian. |
| 1:35.2 | Give our listeners more context about that interview. |
| 1:38.3 | When was that? |
| 1:39.4 | And what happened there? |
| 1:41.0 | The interview was taped last Thursday morning. this is a show it's called the breakfast |
| 1:48.0 | club it's a nationally syndicated show it has an average of four million listeners and it's |
| 1:55.7 | very powerful it's very politically influential the president president, President Biden, has been on this show. |
| 2:04.5 | So the mayor appeared on the show with the lawyer and activist, Olayemi, O'Laurin. We first learned |
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