The top three broadcasters joined CNN and MSNBC on Wednesday to avoid mentioning allegations of sexual harassment against Democratic New York governor Andrew Cuomo during their evening news.
According to Grabien’s transcripts, ABC’s “World News Tonight”, CBS’s “Evening News” and NBC’s “Nightly News” did not mention the confrontation of Cuomo, who faces impeachment and resignation requests after being accused to cover up the number of COVID-19 deaths in state nursing homes following their controversial order that assisted living facilities accept COVID-positive patients
On Wednesday, Lindsey Boylan, a former undersecretary for economic development and special adviser to Cuomo, claimed in an essay published on the website Medium that the governor “endeavored to touch me on the lower back, arms and legs”, kissed I forcibly held it on my lips during an individual meeting and suggested that they “play strip poker” during an airplane trip.
The governor’s office denied Boylan’s allegations of harassment, calling them “simply false” and insisting that the strip poker comment “did not happen”.
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As NewsBusters previously noted, the three networks ignored Boylan when she accessed Twitter in December, when she made her first allegation of sexual harassment against Cuomo, although she did not share details at the time.
CNN, the home network of Governor Chris Cuomo’s brother, made no mention of the allegations on the air or on CNN.com hours after Boylan submitted his claims, according to Grabien’s transcripts and research results on the network’s website.
MSNBC also omitted coverage of allegations of sexual harassment faced by the Democrat already in trouble. However, the liberal network offered a brief coverage of the ongoing scandal in the Cuomo nursing home, reporting a new Marist survey that showed 61% of New York voters believe that Cuomo did something wrong with managing the state’s nursing homes. during the coronavirus pandemic.
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CNN, along with “Cuomo Prime Time” anchor Chris Cuomo, has made an unprecedented effort to minimize and deflect controversies surrounding the New York Democrat, with the far-left network giving developments to the home scandal seniors with little or no airtime – allowing the governor’s anchor brother free rein to conduct friendly and comical interviews with the governor plagued by the scandal in the early months of the pandemic.
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While the governor now faces charges of Boylan’s sexual harassment and intimidation, the CNN anchor said in an interview in May that his brother was “single and ready to mingle”.
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Earlier this month, CNN said that Chris Cuomo was prevented from covering his brother and admitted that the network’s leaders suspended the “rule” last year for the presenter to conduct his friendly fraternal interviews.
Governor Cuomo’s administration is reportedly under investigation by the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn after critics accused authorities of covering up the true number of deaths in COVID nursing homes in the state. At the beginning of the pandemic, the governor ordered assisted health centers to accept COVID-positive patients in order to keep hospital beds free.