How a London newspaper botched a New York political story
The Times, part of the Murdoch family’s News Corp. empire, which has been waging a broad campaign against the democratic socialist candidate, rushed to print with the explosive story that the former mayor had broken with his would-be successor. Its sister publication, the New York Post, quickly aggregated and amplified it. Melissa DeRosa — a top aide to Mamdani’s opponent, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — weighed in to amplify the story.
The only problem? The email had not come from the former mayor at all. De Blasio responded with shock, demanding The Times retract the story. “It is an absolute violation of journalistic ethics. The truth is I fully support @ZohranKMamdani and believe his vision is both necessary and achievable.”
The former mayor marveled, via text message to Semafor, that he’d never had this experience in 25 years of public life.
So how did The Times, a pillar of quality British journalism since the 18th century, blow the story so badly?
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/29/2025/times-london-zohran-mamdani-new-york
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