‘We’re Going To Go To the Jacobin Next’: Mamdani Handpicks Left-Wing Media for Questions

Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, taking a page from communist predecessors, is moving to assure that he has a pliant, ideologically aligned press corps to serve as props for his policy initiatives.
The Trump administration has been targeted with lawsuits for excluding the Associated Press from certain Oval Office pooled coverage opportunities and for restricting some press access in the Pentagon, and he’s taken criticism as an authoritarian for offering access to friendly nontraditional outlets. Mamdani appears to be trying a similar approach but, unlike Trump, he’s so far gotten no apparent pushback about it, demonstrating a double standard.
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