Emboldened by her certain re-election, Mayor Michelle Wu is now taking a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook, attacking the media for not fully backing her assertion that Boston is the safest major city in the country.
The heavy-handed Wu, who won 72% of the vote in this month’s preliminary election, forcing her only opponent to drop out, apparently wants more.
Wu is now moving to buff up her image by having total control of what the media writes about Boston.
Wu, who has received almost universal positive coverage in most publications, web sites, and radio and TV stations in Massachusetts, complained falsely that the media hasn’t written a “single piece” on the city’s low homicide rate.
She made the accusation on one of her many media safe spaces, a fawning radio talk show she gets to