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
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week's event, including analysis of a contentious interview with the Mayor on The Breakfast Club, plus more.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on WNYC now as usual on Wednesdays after Mayor Adams weekly Tuesday news |
| 0:16.3 | conference, our lead city hall reporter Elizabeth Kim. |
| 0:19.7 | It's only that one time a week when reporters can ask about topics of their choosing, not just the mayor's choosing. |
| 0:26.1 | And yesterday's session was pretty contentious as these things go after some leaders of the NYPD use their social media to post derisive comments about |
| 0:36.7 | members of the media who've dared to be critical of the department. |
| 0:41.2 | These were largely focused on an article |
| 0:43.8 | by Daily News columnist Harry Siegel |
| 0:46.6 | and a tough interview that Mayor Adams got |
| 0:49.6 | on the nationally syndicated radio show, |
| 0:51.7 | The Breakfast Club from lawyer and activist |
| 0:54.2 | Olyemi Olorin here's a 30 second excerpt of that. I didn't put the |
| 0:59.2 | national guards in the subway the governor did. I know but I know what you said |
| 1:02.3 | but you said but you said every you |
| 1:03.8 | what you stood with governor Kathy Hocco and you co signed that decision you did and I'm |
| 1:08.4 | not saying this as someone who's following social media I'm saying that as an |
| 1:10.8 | attorney in the city and an activist who follows |
| 1:12.8 | everything that you do. Yeah if you I'm glad you do. But then you realize how I |
| 1:16.6 | turned the city around if you follow everything I do you realize that I |
| 1:20.0 | would say no but we could get to that next. |
| 1:21.6 | Listen up your time, yeah. |
| 1:23.4 | It would be a long day. |
| 1:25.7 | All right, a sample from the breakfast club there |
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