New York Media Go to Town With #Forkgate
Let’s start with a journalist stationed in the borough where this all went down Friday. Staten Island Advance reporter Jillian Jorgensen, in her first few paragraphs, cuts right to the cheese:
As a pizza was placed in front of the new mayor, he made a fateful move: He picked up a fork and knife.
The press corps noticed almost immediately. Within moments, there was a Twitter hashtag: #forkgate.
Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t stick strictly to utensils – he sampled three slices (one margherita, two “Smoking Goodfellas”) and began with utensils for each, before switching to the more conventional New York handheld style for finishing.
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