For months, the New York Post has been Eric Adams’s most dogged defender in the media. But it's getting more adversarial, and if the paper truly turns on him, his whole mayoralty could be at risk. RossBarkan writes
It’s going to take more than swagger. Photo: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images “Mayor Eric Adams in Los Angeles as Crime Worsens Back Home in NYC” was the headline of a recent and extraordinary story in the New York Post. The article itself wasn’t particularly notable; everything in it was undeniably true. What’s surprising is that the Post printed it at all.
The Post-Adams alliance has been remarkable in part because the tabloid so reviled his predecessor. The paper’s war against Bill de Blasio produced some genuinely useful reporting — it was early to highlight the city’s homelessness crisis — but it also kneecapped him in unfair ways. The aloof de Blasio, in turn, never even tried to court Post reporters.
It didn’t hurt that Adams liked to hobnob with the wealthy and powerful. De Blasio fundraised from real-estate developers, but otherwise shunned their world; Adams, a regular at the nightclub Zero Bond, dined with Murdoch himself in 2021. While de Blasio fulminated about a “tale of two cities” and vowed to hike taxes on the rich, Adams promised he’d be an ally of the power elite. “Yeah, we’re over 8 million people. But do you know 65,000 pay 51 percent of our income taxes?” Adams said last year.
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