WaPo: CNN’s Chris Cuomo ‘Failed to Maintain the Most Basic of Journalistic Principles’Wendell Husebøc10 Aug 2021
The Washington Post on Monday published an op-ed criticizing CNN for failing to “maintain the most basic of journalistic principles” amid evidence that anchor Chris Cuomo advised brother of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) how to escape allegations of sexual misconduct before an investigation found the governor sexually harassed multiple women.
“Here’s what CNN’s Chris Cuomo has done over the past weeks and months: failed to maintain the most basic of journalistic principles, which are independence, fairness and impartiality,” media columnist Margaret Sullivan decried.
Sullivan continued to hammer CNN, “the most trusted name in news”:
And his employer, essentially, has let the star host get away with it. Cuomo’s normally news-driven prime-time show last week made no mention of one of the biggest stories of the day: the growing likelihood that his brother would either resign under pressure or be impeached. He’s been forbidden from covering or commenting on it. But there’s no reason to think that Cuomo has been disciplined in any meaningful way. Back in May, Chris Cuomo acknowledged, on air, that he had been “looped into calls” about his brother’s crisis.
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But CNN’s higher-ups seem inclined to look away, in a manner all too reminiscent of what Fox News has done when one of its rainmakers does something outrageous or unethical. For the network with dozens of bureaus around the world and some 4,000 employees, it’s a cop-out. (CNN overall has given the Andrew Cuomo story extensive coverage, and its “Reliable Sources” show took up the media angle on Sunday, including the latest with Chris Cuomo, which host Brian Stelter called “a conundrum for CNN that has no perfect answer, that has no perfect solution.”)
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