New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo is involved in two major scandals, but the mainstream media only seems interested in one.
Cuomo was already being criticized for dealing with deaths in nursing homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, when several women accused him of sexual harassment and inadequate progress.
At least five accusers came forward after the publication of two reports on Saturday night. Cuomo apologized for acting “in a way that made people uncomfortable”, but denied other wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, officials now estimate that more than 15,000 residents of New York’s nursing homes and long-term care centers may have died of coronavirus – far more than the estimated 6,400 state employees reported previously, according to a story published on Thursday. by The Wall Street Journal.
CUOMO SCANDAL TIMELINE REVEALS CNN’S INVOLVEMENT IN PUSHING GOVERNOR’S NARRATIVE
A new study by the Media Research Center “shows that the national media is far less interested in covering that horrific scandal than in the sexual harassment charges against” the governor.
CUOMO’S SEXUAL HARASSMENT SCANDAL MAY BE OVERCOMING THE DEATH OF THE NURSING HOME IN NY, SOME CRITICS ARE CONCERNED
The evening news on ABC, CBS and NBC has devoted a mere fifteen minutes and thirty-five seconds to the nursing home scandal since it was first approached in May 2020, according to the study.
Most of the time, MRC analysts Rich Noyes and Nicholas Fondacaro wrote, “came after the January 28, 2021 report by state attorney general Letitia James, accusing the Cuomo government of underreporting deaths in nursing homes “.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION
Meanwhile, the study continued, ABC’s “World News Tonight”, NBC’s “Nightly News” and CBS’s “Evening News” devoted “almost three times as much coverage – 44 minutes and 14 seconds – to allegations by several women from that Cuomo has sexually harassed in recent years. “
“Although both stories painted the governor and his team in a highly unfavorable way, there is no doubt that the negligent policies of the Cuomo administration’s nursing home had a much broader and more terrible impact,” added Noyes and Fondacaro. “However, this story was, inexplicably, receiving far less attention from national news networks – even with the general pandemic dominating the news for an entire year.”
Brie Stimson of Fox News contributed to this report.