Mayor Sam Adams on Misconceptions and the Media

By HANK STERN

February 15, 2011 at 8:11 am PST

In advance of Mayor Sam Adams' annual State of the City speech this Friday, reporter Beth Slovic and I sat down with the mayor for an hourlong interview that will run in tomorrow's WW.

We asked the mayor in our Feb. 4 interview what he thought was the biggest public misconception of him and what media outlet provided the fairest coverage of him. He didn't much feel like answering either question, as evidenced by this video clip:

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