A guest appearance on CNN quickly fell back for the network and its left-wing media expert, as both continue a credibility crisis.
Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple turned the tables during a Sunday morning appearance on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” to criticize the liberal network for Chris Cuomo’s erroneous media coverage of Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York.
“I would be sad, Brian, if I did not mention CNN’s own big media story here with Chris Cuomo,” Wemple told host Brian Stelter.
CNN has become embroiled in the governor’s parallel scandals after the liberal network repeatedly offered him a platform in his younger brother’s CNN show, ‘Cuomo Prime Time’, to appeal to viewers through playful on-air -call conversations while avoiding Cuomo’s breeding coronavirus nursing home. scandal.
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The fraternal love affair on air suddenly came to a halt when the CNN anchor announced that he would refrain from accusing his brother of sexual assault – a change in the modification of the months’ glowing coverage he offered the governor.
Wemple praised the consistent coverage of other news outlets before pointing to CNN’s own handling of the allegations, and Stelter said the brothers’ “wonderful love interviews” and the ensuing silence on the air were a “big black eye for this” . network. “
“They suspended the conflict of interest for Chris Cuomo for the interviews, but suddenly they enforced it again now that Andrew Cuomo is in the middle of a historic scandal in the state of Albany,” he said.
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A female reporter claimed over the weekend that the older Cuomo touched her improperly in an attempt to impose his power on the young journalist, making her the seventh accused to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against the Democratic governor.