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In October of 2024, Zohran Mamdani announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City. Shortly after, the editors of The New York Post began to work in overdrive to post extremely sloppy and lazy articles on the now mayor elect, and they only get worse after you find out the news outlet is owned by multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch.
Their article ‘How Zohran Mamdani’s promises could wreck the working class’, throws his ideas of free buses, rent freezes and universal childcare right in the bin, with these policies actually directly benefitting the working class unlike wealth hoarding. The news organisation advocates that these ideas, such as free buses, would be too expensive, claiming it would cost taxpayers $1 Billion, intentionally rounding up the actual figure of $600-800 Million to make this policy sound as ridiculous as possible.
This comes to no surprise as a tabloid owned by someone whose net worth is estimated to be $24.7 Billion would undoubtedly want their employees to push the idea that wealthy individuals cannot afford to fund this, despite being able to do so.
Additionally, another popular talking point against making buses free would be that it would turn them into ‘mobile homeless shelters’, which is just another way of demonising homeless individuals, portraying them to be people who would actually set up some sort of camp inside a bus instead of using it for its intended purpose. And even if they wanted to set up a mobile homeless shelter, they can currently do so without paying by just stepping onto the bus without paying…
The New York Post also repeatedly keeps pushing the rhetoric of high-income people leaving NYC if the 34 year old Democratic Socialist wins, with the exact figure being ‘765,000’ people, although two weeks has passed since he has been sworn in and there has been zero evidence to suggest this.
In fact, The Big Apple has seen its millionaire population increase by 45% over the last decade with the millionaire population now being roughly 400,000. This is in contrast to 36% of households did not have enough income to cover basic needs such as housing, food, health care and transportation in 2021. Despite this, The NY post pushes the narrative that helping low income people will take some sort of miracle and that the money is nowhere to be found, interesting.
When The New York Post isn’t trying to spread misinformation on policy ideas that will increase the affordability of NYC for millions, the journalists who pump out multiple articles a day to keep Murdoch's status quo in place then focus on ruining Mamdani’s image. On the 22nd of October 2025, The New York Post criticised the mayor's decision of eating at Omen Azen with his wife, a pricey Japanese restaurant. This piece of criticism is rather confusing, as they suggest that being a Democratic Socialist means that you are no longer allowed to destress and indulge in a fine dining experience with your wife at the peak of the mayoral election. Funnily enough, The NY Post seems to think it is acceptable for Murdoch to own The Sun, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sky News Australia and a plethora of other news outlets and organisations, but eating sushi and wearing $630 boots to the inauguration is apparently pushing limits.
And even after the election, the staff at The New York Post are scrambling to find ways to make Mamdani look bad, such as publishing an article about Canadian professor of marketing Gad Saad who said that New York got duped by '[a] smiley guy’. The professor states that Mamdani put on a “fake smile” during the campaign trail to hide his "venomous side”. This is a unique and rather interesting analysis, because most people when at work also put on a smile, and are polite to everyone whether they are in a bad mood or not, with Saad clearly failing to grasp this idea. In addition to this, if ‘venomous’ refers to Mamdani wanting to implement legislation to support low-income people, this assumes The NY post supports Saad for supporting and platforming his beliefs.
With Mamdani’s favourability rating in New York City skyrocketing to 61% according to the SIENA Research Institute, The New York Post’s smear campaign has clearly not been successful. However, it is still shocking to see how The Post's journalists and editors barely break a six figure salary, yet they publish articles about Mamdani as if he is personally taking all of their money away from their bank accounts. Instead, they support one of Murdoch's many ideological apparatuses, fighting for causes and ideas that are not within their best interest.
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