And so big brother dragged little brother into his trap. Less than four months after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation after an investigation into his sexual misconduct, his younger brother Chris was fired by his employer CNN on Saturday. The presenter has advised his brother during the months he was under fire and the New York prosecutor’s office was investigating the allegations. CNN had suspended Cuomo earlier this week, but went on to resign on Saturday after “further information” on the matter came out, this is what the channel wrote.
“I’m not a consultant, I’m his brother,” Chris Cuomo said on TV in August. Last week, the New York prosecutor’s office unveiled some documents showing that Chris had been an adviser to Andrew a little too often. “Please let me help with the preparations,” the journalist to his brother’s right hand wrote before releasing a statement. And when she’d asked him to “check his sources” to see if any new revelations about his brother were imminent, Cuomo texted back, “I will.”
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With Chris Cuomo, CNN loses one of its most important faces. And that in an already rather disastrous year. Viewing figures for the month of November, published last week, show that of the three major cable news channels (Fox News and MSNBC being the other two), CNN has taken the biggest blow of the post-election year, also the post-Trump era. In the evening, CNN lost 77 percent of its audience, compared to November 2020, and a whopping 84 percent in the 25-54 age group, advertisers’ favorite viewers. Fox lost 49 percent there. CNN is by far the least viewed channel across all age groups.
In his weekday show Cuomo Prime Time Since 2017, the 51-year-old presenter has presented his view of the news in that typical CNN style: looking straight into the camera with his blue eyes and giving a high-pitched unconcerned partisan monologue about political and social issues. Partisan, in the case of CNN, means pro-Democratic, critical of Republicans, hostile to former President Donald Trump.
Casual and personal
Chris is the youngest son of New York Governor Mario Cuomo from 1983 to 1994. While Andrew began working for their father’s campaigns at a young age, Chris went to law school and ended up in CNN’s counterpart Fox News. journalism. He worked for ABC News for many years, where he became an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and a regular host of important programs such as Good Morning America.
Due to the casual and personal nature of Prime Time it may have been less noticeable that Chris Cuomo occasionally invited his brother in the spring of 2020 to make dolls about its policy. Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo was governor of New York, the hardest-hit state at the start of the corona pandemic, and he was favorably compared to President Trump on the same channel as crisis manager.
Once his brother was accused of sexually inadmissible behavior by various employees, Chris Cuomo was also held accountable. „Obviously I can’t post about this, because he is my brother,” he said in March.
Revealed in May The Washington Post that Cuomo might not have been able to do his job as a journalist, but he had assisted the governor with advice. His employer rapped him on the fingers and Cuomo expressed regret on his own show. At the end of last month, when the Public Prosecution Service released documents from the investigation, his employer suspended Cuomo because of a “too cozy and inappropriate relationship” between the presenter and employees of the governor. “When she asked me that, I contacted other journalists to ask if they had heard if more people would bring charges,” Chris Cuomo said during an interrogation to the OM.
“It’s never easy doing this job when you come from a political family,” Chris Cuomo had said in August when he discussed the news of his brother’s resignation. Saturday he wrote in a statement “Disappointed” with CNN’s decision to fire him.
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