"If you found out that an intern did this, they would be gone a second after these text messages came out," @janecoaston said on #TheView in response to the Chris Cuomo controversy.
"This is abuse of power." pic.twitter.com/Q9erp9c93C
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) November 30, 2021
But abuse is what power is *for*, cry the Media Village Idiots!
every reporter in america is lining up on social media to say “i am also a terrible person” and yeah buddy of this we are aware https://t.co/t9wh8cRU9l
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) December 1, 2021
[N.B.: Yes, Clyde is Maggie’s old man, if you wonder where she got her sense of ethics.]
he didn’t have gambling debts or a substance abuse problem. he was engaged in sexual predation. i feel like these lines are super easy to delineate!
— World Famous Art Thief (@CalmSporting) December 1, 2021
New Yorker‘s famous interviewer shows why he is both applauded and feared:
Even if you think his personal behavior was bad, you have to admit that losing Cuomo is a blow to journalism that will take at least five seconds to recover from https://t.co/Dglj0nJH1h
— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) November 30, 2021
we never doubted your complete lack of journalistic integrity and you did not disappoint us, chris https://t.co/uwFI0BvJb6
— kilgore trout, uatx professor of turnip studies (@KT_So_It_Goes) December 1, 2021
shorter Cillizza: Cuomo helped me get my CNN job https://t.co/7m6ObzUMrN
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) December 1, 2021
a lot of powerful people have never thought to tell a loved one when to take a f***ing L and it shows tonight.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) December 1, 2021
I mean if I had a brother I’d probably dig deep to help hire him an attorney but if he wanted help attacking his sexual assault victims I’d probably pass
— Black-HeartedEvilPopehat (@Popehat) December 1, 2021
In fairness to Chris Cuomo, CNN management brought this situation on themselves by creating a special separate set of rules for him that said it was perfectly okay to mix his job with his family. The ship sailed the moment they greenlit both brothers going on air together.
— Matt Pearce ?? (@mattdpearce) November 30, 2021
truly shocking when you tell a guy he gets to break the rules because of who his brother is and that guy somehow gets the impression he’s allowed to break the rules https://t.co/Qj9xxzupIK
— kilgore trout, uatx professor of turnip studies (@KT_So_It_Goes) November 30, 2021
Why Chris Cuomo’s ‘family first’ defense just doesn’t fly. … My column here https://t.co/KOH966XVOQ
— ?? Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) December 1, 2021
Sullivan, fired from her NYTimes ombudsperson position for… having ethical standards:
…[T]his was about a high-powered media star using his considerable juice to blunt credible accusations of sexual assault and misconduct against the governor of New York State.
Power helping power, in the service of disrupting the investigation of potential crimes…
Even if you accept the idea that Chris Cuomo is less a journalist than an entertainer, the rules of journalistic ethics still ought to apply. He is, as much as anyone, the face of CNN.
So what are these ethical rules? Pretty simple. You don’t abuse your position in journalism — whether at a weekly newspaper or a major network — for personal or familial gain.
If you’re a journalist, you don’t write a letter on news-organization letterhead to the City Council asking for a special easement on your property. You don’t accept a case of wine at holiday time from a local real estate developer if you’re a business reporter.
And you certainly don’t do what Chris Cuomo did: involve himself with a crisis-management effort that could influence the outcome of a criminal investigation of the highest elected official in New York. It’s wrong.
I’ll argue that his ethical transgressions began far higher up on this slippery slope, with a much less severe conflict-of-interest infraction. That was early in the pandemic, when CNN carved out a major loophole that allowed their host to actually interview his governor-brother on air several times, complete with softball questions and backslapping humor about who Mom loves best. That happened a half-dozen times, especially at the start of the pandemic. At the time, I wrote that, while certainly questionable, it seemed fairly harmless as a form of comic relief, given the extraordinary circumstances…
“He was surviving because it didn’t make Zucker look bad. Now it is,” a senior journalist who used to work for Zucker told The Daily Beast.
That's just one of the juicy details in our Chris Cuomo story, with @LachCartwright and @AndrewKirell https://t.co/5kqZwfj99P
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 1, 2021
Chetan Murthy
Anybody notice (on this dark day) that the GrOPers are aiming to shutdown the government, in order to end the vaccine mandates? Urrrrrrgh.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/01/government-shutdown-coronavirus-vaccine/
Ruckus
@Chetan Murthy:
Well, seeing as how they don’t want the government that we supposedly have, but one far more like the one Vlad has, I’d bet they want to shut the government down for far more nefarious reasons than vaccine mandates.
ian
@Chetan Murthy:
I think they would have voted for shutdown for any reason, or no reason at all. It is all just a cynical power grab, the federal agencies or unemployed federal workers are just pawns in the game of power chess. Claiming it is to stop vaccine mandates is just meat for the base, it would have been another issue if the vaccine mandate wasn’t around.
Chetan Murthy
@ian: In a way, your theory is reassuring. If they’d decided that antivaxxerism was potent that they were willing to shutdown the government to push it, that’d be …. even more depressing.
Major Major Major Major
@Chetan Murthy: can’t let a good crisis go to waste!
Another Scott
@Chetan Murthy: (I haven’t read the WaPo link.)
Time is so short that they have to get unanimous consent not to have a shutdown. Any excuse will do for the GQP. In the background is the fact that they want to prevent any social spending increases by forcing a full-year CR. Democrats want January at the most.
It’s their only play – delay, do nothing, and obstruct progress.
Grr…
GovExec has more
Cheers,
Scott.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Yawn. Chris Cuemo was only there because his brother was governor and when the brother wasn’t governor, Chris Cuemo was surplus to requirements. T
It’s only a matter of time before we will be seeing gay oral sex between middle age men on Cable TV news n the name of “Accesses”. Late night adults only Meet the Press here we come.
Major Major Major Major
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: what
Peale
@Another Scott: Every time we get to this point I really just want to end the Senate. No reform of the senate rules. Just end it.
Proposed Amendment: The Senate was a stupid idea. The founders were wrong. All references to the Senate are hereby struck from the Constitution and anyone who served in it has 14 days to leave the country after which time they get poked with pitchforks until they do.
Edmund Dantes
When Sean Hannity is one of your defenders it’s time to re-evaluate your life choices.
Cameron
Gee, some Republican Senators want a government default. I’m sure this took Democratic leadership completely by surprise, right?
Major Major Major Major
@Peale: make it like the House of Lords, they can basically only propose amendments
Joey Maloney
@Major Major Major Major: Make it like the House of Monkeys, they can only fling poo at spectators.
Dan B
@Joey Maloney: Sounds like fodder for the Simpsons.
LOL’d!
Shalimar
@Chetan Murthy: Their reasons won’t matter. Previous government shutdowns have been damaging to Republicans, giving them well-deserved reputations as obstructionists at times people really needed the government to act. I doubt it will be any different this time. Politically, it’s a huge mistake entering a year where they otherwise have a big electoral advantage.
Van Buren
I guess Clyde is telling us he’ll stand by his daughter when she aids and abets the fascist takeover of America.
satby
@Shalimar: it’s bizarre how utterly in thrall the Republicans are to a minority base so that they keep going back to a well that’s poisoned for them. Vaccine mandates are broadly popular, and previous shut downs have hurt them. Plus, they always fold, because it’s obvious they’ll be blamed each time they try it, which just makes them look stupid.
Cermet
Media won’t “recover” from that blow – rather that’s an improvement and one doesn’t want to ‘recover’ from an improvement! Now if all the talking heads at fox followed for their aid in mass murder then that would be a full recovery.
lowtechcyclist
There’s an idea: charge all the anti-vax leaders and media figures with sedition. (No, I don’t care how big a stretch that is. Let a guy dream.) After conviction, send ’em all to Gitmo.
lowtechcyclist
Re Cuomo, Yglesias tweeted this out (then deleted it):
If I had a brother, and the ‘scandal’ he was embroiled in was using his power to sexually harass and assault women, I’d be doing some unethical shit too: I’d be kicking him in the nuts.
Victimizing other people isn’t a ‘scandal,’ it’s a horrible thing to do.
So fuck Matt Yglesias.
bluegirlfromwyo
What further examination is there to be had here? You’re a journalist who decided to take a new job “crisis managing” your brother. You needed to quit your journalist job. You don’t get to have both. Period. End of story. That virtually none of our media recognize this is crazy. We live in an insane asylum, even though we’re way too big to be one.
Steeplejack (phone)
@lowtechcyclist:
Are you sure that wasn’t sarcasm? Possibly deleted because of potential for misinterpretation.
trnc
@Chetan Murthy:
Wow! Pretty special level of stupid. I haven’t read the article, but I assume it points out that a shutdown stops the spending but doesn’t erase policies in effect at the time of the shutdown.
lowtechcyclist
@Steeplejack (phone): AFAIK, he hasn’t explained himself, which would be easy enough to do if he was being facetious.
Ten Bears
Ones and zeros: an ideologically stacked unelected panel of Opus Dei ~ Catholic Illuminati ~ vigilantes handing down actively partisan edicts is illegitimate, unconstitutional, and contrary to The Founders’ intent. There is no law, nothing compels us to “obey”. I’ve been calling that panel’s Y2K appointment of the Cheney Administration to the presidency The End of “America” ever since.
This just ties it up with a nice bow on top …
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
A lot of press people seem a bit upset about this, but really, is anybody else going to miss this guy? They could walk into the Giant where in my town and find somebody to hire in five minutes with as much presence as this guy.
Ella in New Mexico
@Major Major Major Major: lololol right?
J R in WV
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J R in WV
@lowtechcyclist:
I say treason because it directly attempts to kill Americans by the hundreds daily, worse than the Twin Towers murders by hundreds of thousands dead for refusal to accept a safe and free vaccination. Terrorism, treason, all the same for Republicans today.