| Barely five months after the city’s streets swelled with anti-police protesters, Eric Adams made a daring bet that he, a former NYPD captain, could win the Democratic nomination for mayor. Perhaps it was inevitable that the conservative New York Post would endorse the most right-wing candidate in the field, but the paper did more than just that in 2021. It went into overdrive for Adams, printing hundreds of positive stories and bashing his rivals, all while the candidate dined with both the editor-in-chief and the publication’s owner, Rupert Murdoch. Noah Shachtman spoke with current and former staffers who described a secretive alliance between Adams and the paper, which conveniently ignored warning signs about the candidate’s ethics and helped elect a mayor who would become the first in modern history to be indicted. |
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