Media Did Their Best to Scare Voters Away From Zohran Mamdani
Media Did Their Best to Scare Voters Away From Zohran Mamdani
Zohran Mamdani's victory exposes the out-of-touchness of establishment media outlets that twisted like pretzels to scare voters away.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32131286
They tried. Oh, did the media try.
It's not "out-of-touchness" though.
It's that the establishment media (and the establishment as a whole for that matter) explicitly serve the interests of the wealthiest few.
No war but class war.
The out-of-touch part is that every time they try to smear him they just make people like him more.
They also think they can maintain control of the narrative. Nope.
Now that you mention it, that is true. Not what they meant, but true.
like with LUIGI.
Zohran? As in Zohran the Destroyer?
We need to flesh out the lore of this great warrior.
checks notes
"Yeah. Him. The guy who might get me housing."
This quote boils my blood:
He favors rent freezes that could restrict housing supply
Did they really? If you look up his name via a search engine and grab results dating a month back and beyond, there's plenty of articles giving non-negative spotlights of him. If the establishment media were all trying to unanimously sabotage him, all they'd have to do is the opposite - stop reporting on him, given how politics is just money + media competition.
If you actually read the article, they cite specific publications: NYTimes, Atlantic, New Yorker, NYPost, WSJ, etc.
If you want to write a counter article about your google search, go for it.
A little hard to be scared of Young Cardamom: https://youtu.be/DZ1OblYm5YY