whateverisok t1_j31jcrz wrote on January 5, 2023 at 12:32 PM

Reply to comment by Sufficient_Mirror_12 in Eric Adams blasts Bill de Blasio for leaving NYC in 'total disarray' by 1600hazenstreet

No, I don't think the title is misleading. From the rest of the NYT article you linked (not just the headline/subheadline):

"In an unprompted, seven-minute tirade, Mr. Adams on Wednesday lashed out at the former mayor, Bill de Blasio, accusing him of leaving New York City in disarray, and insisting that Mr. de Blasio’s former top aides had no right to publicly criticize the way Mr. Adams is running the city.

“I am so tired of the previous administration and their antics,” Mr. Adams said at the end of what had been a routine news conference about expanding the city’s fleet of electric vehicles.

Mr. Adams, a moderate Democrat who is entering his second year in office, said he had recently called Mr. de Blasio to complain about the attacks."

Further down:

"And then Mr. Adams returned the favor. He lit into Mr. de Blasio’s record as mayor and argued that criticism from former city officials — about Mr. Adams’s handling of the pandemic, city schools and violence at Rikers — was extremely unusual and unhelpful, especially when they had “left the house in total disarray.”

It was a stunning broadside from Mr. Adams against Mr. de Blasio and his allies and one of the most fiery scuffles between Democrats in New York since Mr. de Blasio accused Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of acting vindictively toward the city in 2015."

Sufficient_Mirror_12 t1_j324a3x wrote on January 5, 2023 at 3:16 PM

Nice try. Once again false and inaccurate about the direct relationship between the two mayors with this selective framing. Your reply focused on the part about the aides and the broader administration, not the direct relationship between the two mayors, which is what the title of this post is inferring. If you updated it to "deBlasio administration aides" per the article, then yes, it would be accurate. This is a key problem with Adams's critics with this selective framing that's not helpful and quite problematic in many ways.

"Mr. de Blasio said in a statement on Wednesday night that he had spoken to Mr. Adams earlier in the day and that he understood how difficult it was to govern the city and wanted him to succeed.“I sympathize with his frustration with certain critics but want to emphasize this: No one speaks for me but me,” Mr. de Blasio said."

"Mr. Adams said that Mr. de Blasio had been “extremely helpful” and that his frustration was directed at others from his administration who wanted to see Mr. Adams fail."