A New York Times story published Tuesday morning documenting Mayor Bill de Blasio’s subway angst was made possible by an errant email sent to a reporter from the paper. Michael Grynbaum explains how the “stern, bullet-pointed missive” found its way to a Times reporter’s inbox:
Mr. de Blasio, who has been making a concerted effort to repair his reputation for tardiness, copied two senior aides on the email, including his chief of staff. The mayor, by accident, added another recipient as well: a reporter for The New York Times.
Writing for New York, Jessica Roy raises the possibility that the wayward gripe wasn’t sent by accident at all, but instead a clever ploy to play up the mayor’s everyman sensibilities.
If this is a subtle way to sneak back into the good graces of the one percent, well done, sir. If not, and coordinating commutes with the MTA is an option available to all New Yorkers, please let me know who to talk to there. I’d really like the 2/3 trains to run express from my house to work. Thanks!
This isn’t the first time this year a misdirected email has sparked a media story. In March, Buckley Carlson, the brother of Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson, inadvertently sent a spokesperson from de Blasio’s office a vulgar email that disparaged her. That message found its way to BuzzFeed, which ran a story on its contents.
