June 26, 2025
Zohran Mamdani Offers Fox News Its Nightmare Vision of Big Cities — Live From the Heart of New York
The network’s distorted view of the L.A. protests plays on fear, just as Mamdani’s mayoral primary win fuels its separation of media centers from “real America”
Brian Lowry | June 26, 2025 @ 6:15 AM
This week, NHMC’s President and CEO, Brenda Victoria Castillo, was quoted by Brian Lowry of The Wrap. In the article, Brenda gave her firsthand account of what took place during the recent Downtown Los Angeles ICE Raids protests and how Fox News continues to push false narratives.
“Brenda Victoria Castillo, president & CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, a nonprofit that advocates for human and civil rights, said she is “very disappointed” in how Fox News and other conservative media have covered the protests, noting she was in Downtown L.A. when they started, and the vast majority of those on hand were peaceful.
“They created a false story, a narrative that was not true,” Castillo told TheWrap. “They focused on one flag, they didn’t show the sea of flags. It was really dehumanizing. They’re trying to portray us as savages.”
In some respects, Fox News is merely advancing Republican talking points, as it often does, helping create a political-media feedback loop that Vice President JD Vance joined on his recent visit to Los Angeles, saying he saw a great American city being “destroyed” by illegal immigration.
“‘We saved Los Angeles from burning,’” Castillo said, quoting a comment by Trump. ‘Los Angeles was not burning, I promise you.’”
The stunning win by Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York’s mayoral primary is nothing short of a godsend for Fox News, allowing the Trump-loving channel to unleash its most outlandish stereotypes about both New York and the Democratic Party.
“We will introduce you to the 33-year-old radical extremist,” Sean Hannity said on Tuesday, scarcely able to contain his glee at the target-rich prospect of Mamdani being “one step closer to running America’s largest city” while predicting a “mass exodus” of New Yorkers.
“America doesn’t want this,” Brian Kilmeade said during a head-shaking election postmortem Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.” “New York may want it. But America doesn’t want it.
Read the article in full, visit TheWrap.com
