{"id":42433,"date":"2025-07-08T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42433"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:55:47","slug":"corporate-media-is-trying-to-take-down-mamdani-this-is-why-theyre-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/corporate-media-is-trying-to-take-down-mamdani-this-is-why-theyre-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"CORPORATE\u00a0MEDIA IS TRYING TO TAKE DOWN MAMDANI.\u00a0THIS IS WHY THEY\u2019RE FAILING."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/therealnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222503749-scaled.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for mayor speaks during a press conference celebrating his primary victory with leaders and members of the city's labor unions on July 2, 2025 in New York. Photo by ANGELA WEISS\/AFP via Getty Images\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POSTED IN<a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/category\/shows\/inequality-watch\">INEQUALITY WATCH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pushback against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been fierce. That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/taya-graham\">TAYA GRAHAM<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;AND&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/stephen-janis\">STEPHEN JANIS<\/a><\/strong> JULY 7, 2025 (therealnews.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for mayor speaks during a press conference celebrating his primary victory with leaders and members of the city&#8217;s labor unions on July 2, 2025 in New York. Photo by ANGELA WEISS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CNN Anchor BOTCHES progressive candidate takedown, MSM has &#039;knives out&#039; for Zohran Mamdani!\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkLlBb-6v-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The pushback against progressive New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been fierce. That pushback has largely been coming from the mainstream media. Inequality Watchdogs Stephen Janis and Taya Graham take down CNN anchor Brianna Keller\u2019s takedown of Mamdani and show how her efforts amount to corporatist propaganda intended to undermine the popularity of his platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Get the truth that fuels action directly into your inbox. Sign up for The Real News. Join the movement. Don\u2019t wait\u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Subscribe now<\/strong>!SIGN UP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Studio Production: David Hebden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Post-Production: Stephen Janis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.<strong>TAGGED:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/tag\/media-criticism\">media criticism<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/tag\/video\">video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/taya-graham\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/taya-graham\">TAYA GRAHAMHOST AND PRODUCER<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Host &amp; Producer<\/strong><br>Taya Graham is an award-winning investigative reporter who has covered U.S. politics, local government, and the criminal justice system. She is the host of TRNN&#8217;s &#8220;Police Accountability Report,&#8221; and producer and co-creator of the award-winning podcast &#8220;Truth and Reconciliation&#8221; on Baltimore&#8217;s NPR affiliate WYPR. She has written extensively for a variety of publications including the Afro American Newspaper, the oldest black-owned publication in the country, and was a frequent contributor to Morgan State Radio at a historic HBCU. She has also produced two documentaries, including the feature-length film &#8220;The Friendliest Town.&#8221; Although her reporting focuses on the criminal justice system and government accountability, she has provided on the ground coverage of presidential primaries and elections as well as local and state campaigns. Follow her on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tayasbaltimore\">Twitter<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/taya-graham\">More by Taya Graham<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/stephen-janis\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/stephen-janis\">STEPHEN JANISHOST AND PRODUCER<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Host &amp; Producer<\/strong><br>Stephen Janis is an award winning investigative reporter turned documentary filmmaker. His first feature film,&nbsp;<em>The Friendliest Town<\/em>&nbsp;was distributed by Gravitas Ventures and won an award of distinction from The Impact Doc Film Festival, and a humanitarian award from The Indie Film Fest. He is the co-host and creator of&nbsp;<em>The Police Accountability Report<\/em>&nbsp;on The Real News Network, which has received more than 10,000,000 views on YouTube. His work as a reporter has been featured on a variety of national shows including the Netflix reboot of&nbsp;<em>Unsolved Mysteries, Dead of Night<\/em>&nbsp;on Investigation Discovery Channel,&nbsp;<em>Relentless<\/em>&nbsp;on NBC, and&nbsp;<em>Sins of the City<\/em>&nbsp;on TV One.<a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/author\/stephen-janis\">More by Stephen Janis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POSTED ININEQUALITY WATCH Pushback against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been fierce. That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals. BY&nbsp;TAYA GRAHAM&nbsp;AND&nbsp;STEPHEN JANIS JULY 7, 2025 (therealnews.com) Zohran Mamdani, Democratic candidate for mayor speaks during a press&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/corporate-media-is-trying-to-take-down-mamdani-this-is-why-theyre-failing\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42435,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42433\/revisions\/42435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}