Hard to believe that at one time, someone like this lady (Lynne Russell) used to be on CNN.
Posted on 12/01/2021 4:02:28 AM PST by Kaslin
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.
CNN cannot be embarassed. They embrace the Communist News Network label.
Seems more honorable than Hunter, who still has faced no consequenses
“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. “
CNN newsletter?
is Stelter the one who was caught while masturbating on-set?
Toobin is the one who was caught, suspended, returned.
Stelter is the potato who full-time defends the press.
What evidence is there of this embarrassment? They have hired known liars in the past, e.g. Andrew McCabe. Gaslighting is what they do. They need liars to push the lies that their masters want Americans to believe, so they quite simply require employees with very low ethical standards.
Since I do not watch CNN, could someone tell me if this is current or from a prior “embarrassment”
Pretty funny either way.
You would think Coumo is a ratings magnet.
There is absolutely nothing that can embarrass any news organization at this point!
I'm old enough to remember when news organizations were supposed to accurately report the news, not suppress news they don't like, and make up news they like.
(Not sure that they ever did, but at least in the past that's what they were supposed to do, and they had most people believing that's what they did.)
Lying is like breathing to the Left.
Liberals seem unable to function without lying
Fredo Cuomo did nothing wrong. CNN is a leftist political platform, and Fredo is a leftist political operative. Suspending him is simply CNN’s way of pretending it actually has standards.
Lying comes natural to them.
So what?! CNN knows no shame. Cuomo was symbolically suspended but will be back before you even get a chance not to miss him.
Chris Cuomo’s Lies Embarrass CNN
WTF?
You said it!!!
He lied. He violated multiple ethics of journalism
Firing is the perfect solution. However, in the eyes of management at CNN his real sin was being caught in public. CNN knew what he was doing and approved.
orange jumpsuits for all
Cuomo duped CNN viewers several times ......lying on the air in August,
saying, “I never made calls to the press about my brother’s situation.”
And he lied in his testimony to the NYAG’s probe. Cuomo said,
“I would, when asked, reach out to sources, other journalists,
to see if they had heard of anybody else coming out.”
REALITY CHECK This is textbook Hillary-era Bimbo Eruption MO.
Did former Clinton aide, ABC journo George Stephanopolous, weigh in?
Cuomo downplayed his secretive role:
<><>colluding w/ his extensive media contacts,
<><>pushing back on the allegations,
<><>being on the lookout for potential future damaging stories
<><> monitoring stories he knew were coming,
<><>advising the governor’s office as to what he knew,
<><>helping draft a formal statement
<><>gathering info on reporting in the works WRT the governor’s accusers.
Sorry. Nothing embarrass’s CNN.
Hard to believe that at one time, someone like this lady (Lynne Russell) used to be on CNN.
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