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NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Thinks The City Should Buy Up The Newspapers

Emily Zanotti

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has a solution for all the bad press he’s getting lately: buy up the New York City newspapers.

After several local news agencies closed their doors, including Gothamist and DNA Info NYC, de Blaiso suggested that the city could invest in smaller, local outlets designed to inform the populace of all of his stellar deeds. The coverage, of course, would be “more fair” than the several privately owned newspapers that already operate in the city.

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