A CNN guest called out to the network on Sunday morning because he had to lead anchor Chris Cuomo glowing, ‘love-a-interviews’ with his now scandal-ridden brother, Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple turned down the script when Brian Stelter, a trusted source “presenter, asked about” the media’s coverage ‘of the governor’s scandals “so far.
“I would be sad if I did not mention CNN’s own big media story here,” Wemple said.
“Chris Cuomo, the anchor at 9 o’clock, who treated Andrew Cuomo and kept all these wonderful interviews with him with love – more than ten of them.”
“They suspended the conflict of interest for Chris Cuomo for these interviews,” Wemple continued. “Yet they have suddenly applied it again now that Andrew Cuomo has been in the midst of a historic scandal in the Albany State House.”
“I think it’s a big black eye for CNN,” he concluded – before Stelter changed the subject.
CNN said last month that it was repeating its “rule” preventing Chris Cuomo from interviewing his brother, and reversing the policy after the governor appeared regularly in 2020.
On March 1, the TV host briefly addressed the allegations against his brother.
“I’m obviously aware of what’s going on with my brother,” said the anchor at the top of his primetime show. “And of course I can not cover it, because he is my brother.”
“Now, of course, CNN has to cover it,” the host continued. “They have discussed it extensively and will continue to do so.”
Cuomo, 63, has been accused by seven women of inappropriate behavior or remarks in recent weeks, but has vehemently denied doing anything improper. He is also being shot because he withheld information about the raw number of COVID-19 deaths in state nursing homes.