Brotherly love really is in the air on CNN radio waves, as its most watched news anchor continues to avert the growing scandal of the New York governor’s nursing home.
“Cuomo Prime Time” host Chris Cuomo was criticized for having a conflict of interest during the coronavirus pandemic, especially for repeatedly welcoming his older brother, Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, into his friendly interview program that involved teasing between looks. competing for your mother’s affection, and even comedy.
However, while Governor Cuomo’s controversial political nursing home, which ordered assisted living facilities to accept patients with COVID, has been brewing for months, recent events have clouded Cuomo’s administration to scandal status afterwards that the New York Post dropped its bomb on a top aide apologizing to New York Democrats for keeping the death data in COVID nursing homes hidden.
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That report was also accompanied by one from the Associated Press, who claimed that more than 9,000 patients with COVID were sent to nursing homes in the first months of the pandemic.
Although his brother became the center of one of the country’s biggest political news stories, Chris Cuomo managed to fill much of his hour on Monday night by giving lectures on morality to Republicans after former President Trump’s impeachment trial, now completed. He spent less than six minutes of his show talking about the pandemic, which came close to the end of the hour.
For months, the troubled governor found a safe haven during CNN’s prime time programming. Along with his brother, his friend, “CNN Tonight” anchor Don Lemon, did not report the controversy in his two hours on air.
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Anderson Cooper, however, addressed the scandal on Monday night for about five minutes, which was the first time he mentioned the New York nursing home scandal since October, when he briefly confronted the governor about the matter during a interview.
Meanwhile, MSNBC has completely avoided the issue in its prime-time Monday night program. Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes and Lawrence O’Donnell have yet to mention Governor Cuomo’s political problems in their programs during the pandemic.
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While the most prominent programs on CNN and MSNBC continue to ignore coverage of the Cuomo scandal, it is gaining momentum elsewhere. All three broadcast networks dealt with the controversy in their evening news on Monday, after omitting coverage from their morning programs.
NBC’s “Nightly News” devoted most of the time to the subject, scoring one minute and 37 seconds. Both ABC’s “World News Tonight” and “CBS Evening News” paled in comparison, offering only 33 seconds and 25 seconds, respectively.