CNN’s dramatic and insurmountable conflict of interest of using Chris Cuomo as a “news anchor” just keeps getting more ridiculous. On Nov. 29, thousands of pages of evidence emerged from the investigation of New York Attorney General Letitia James into ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Once again, it underlined that Chris Cuomo didn’t have a line of media ethics that he wouldn’t cross.
Finally, CNN took some action … after they let him host his show one more night. He’s now suspended indefinitely while they evaluate the pile of new evidence.
When his brother resigned in August, the CNN host claimed, “I’m not an adviser. I’m a brother. I wasn’t in control of anything. I was there to listen and offer my take, and my advice to my brother was simple and consistent.”
But the documents show Cuomo was an aggressive adviser, using what the New York Times called “his vast network of sources in and outside of media” to keep his brother’s political career intact. He was correct to say it was “family first, job second.” He used the second to help the first, and CNN has seemed more interested in milking the scandal for ratings than issuing any punishments.
Cuomo said he was in a “panic” about how the governor’s team was handling the accusations and pleaded to “let me help with the prep” before drafting his own proposed statements for the governor to read, including one referencing “cancel culture.”
The documents show Cuomo used a royal “we.” “You need to trust me,” he pleaded with Melissa DeRosa, the governor’s secretary, at one point in March. “We are making mistakes we can’t afford.” He also texted he was happy when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie “used our language.”
Back in July, DeRosa told investigators, “Chris sends me a lot of things a lot of the time. Half of it I don’t engage in. He gives unsolicited advice.”
Even the CNN report on this matter noted Cuomo also said on the air in August, “I never made calls to the press about my brother’s situation.” But he lied in his testimony to the attorney general’s probe. Cuomo said, “I would, when asked, I would reach out to sources, other journalists, to see if they had heard of anybody else coming out.”
Cuomo wasn’t “Facts First.” He was “Lies First.”
With this latest punishing pile of paper, CNN stayed mostly silent for a day. Its “CNNPR” Twitter account said nothing. CNN put out a noncommittal statement about how the documents “deserve a thorough review and consideration,” and, “We will be having conversations and seeking additional clarity about their significance as they relate to CNN over the next several days.”
They put Cuomo back on the air, and he had the overweening chutzpah to lecture Team Biden about offering full disclosure about the coming omicron variant of the coronavirus. “Don’t continue this pattern of us having to catch there were things you knew that you could have told us and didn’t,” Cuomo preached. “Please, let’s do better.” His level of shamelessness is world-class.
In his newsletter, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter repeated his Cuomo spin from August as persistent wisdom: “This has been a conundrum for CNN that has no perfect answer, no perfect solution.” That’s wrong.
The perfect solution after all this lying is to fire Cuomo. An indefinite suspension at least acknowledges Cuomo’s lying deeply embarrassed CNN. Now it remains to be seen if he will re-emerge like nothing happened, just as CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin did after eight months.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
First off : … CNN could …NEVER… be embarrassed about… ANYTHING …. they broad cast. Second :.. they figured that the station could get more sponsors and market shares by showing the piano playing kitty for an hour: .. Third McCarthy realized Fredo was out “POSing” him.. and he just couldn’t have that. Forth: the focus group said Fredo was loosing his lying skills and just wasn’t believable any more … even the libtards wasn’t convinced of his lies… CNN needs to find a much better liar.
Since most there lack a soul, i can’t really see how they are ever embarrassed..
Chris Cuomo and Jeffrey Toobin, Just two more CNN edified morality Killer Clowns from Outer Space, that present themselves as friendly helpful innocuous Bozo and Ringmaster Ned. Don’t eat the mind-numbing sweet treats they offer because you won’t like what you find inside their cotton candy cocoons. Mass murderer John Wayne Gacy was also a killer clown,,,,the temperature inside his Des Plaines Illinois basement was 33 below. Andrew Cuomo’s was about 15,000 below,, Senior citizens the ground.
It should be; “CNN’s Lies Embarrass CNN Enough To Take Action”.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, some people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the Democrat Party can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the Democrat Party to use all of its powers to repress the truth, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the “Democrat Party.”
I wonder, if he’s still on their Payroll, during this supposed Indefinite suspension
The problem here is not Chris Cuomo, the problem is the network’s approval of his content and broadcasting it! CNN’s approval of Cuomo himself! Add damages of $2 BILLION and counting ocurring across the USA, that to a large degree falls at the hands & wording from CNN subjective broadcasting!
Which is why i firmly believe, ALL STORES and towns that were destroyed DUE TO THE ENCOURAGMENT TO RIOT, that CNN performed, SHOULD sue the pants off them civilly, for INCITEMENT to riot.
Chris Cuomo’s Lies Embarrass CNN Enough To Take Action
I didn’t think that was possible.
GREAT NEWS!!!! Buh-bye Fredo….. LMBO!!!!!
Don’t get too happy too soon. I heard CNN is thinking about bringing Fredo back after January 1 when they hope things settle down.
Wouldn’t shock me one bit
Just another example of your typical liberal mindset when it comes to the institutions of Government & the liberal media. Most of them are so full of evil & corruption, that they should be spending the rest of their lives in jail!
Whoever is supporting this failing network isn’t getting much return on their investment.
Makes you wonder, WHY any company, in their right mind at least, would still ADVERTISE WITH CNN?