CNN anchor Chris Cuomo reportedly gave advice to his embattled brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), on how to handle the multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him from current and former aides earlier this year.
I’m not surprised by this, nor am I sure this is news. They’re brothers. Is anyone surprised by this?
I wonder why he didn’t reach out to a pro, like Bill O’Lielly?
Well, that’s a bummer… I enjoy his show on CNN and having your brother the Governor in a huge scandal can’t be easy. I knew he had stated on the air that he wouldn’t be covering it, but to provide coaching on conference calls is going over the line.
Impartiality
Andrew Cuomo is still the favorite, but using his brother as a lifeline isn’t a smart move.
What if it was various one on one conversations?
Chris Cuomo reportedly gave advice to his embattled brother
I would.
This was par for the course for many years at Fox from the advice from Roger Ailes to the W. Bush campaign in 2000 as well as the post 9/11 shilling for the administration.
Why?
Are you asking about one on one conversations between two brothers ? If so they can talk about whatever they want to. But the article states " Chris was part of several phone calls with the governor and his team of lawyers, advisers and communications staffers ". I see no mention of various one on one conversations.
I figured that was the mistake, that he should not have been on a call with his brother’s lawyers. Thanks for responding.
It’s a gray area, but for a journalist to provide coaching on how to spin a story just seems like poor judgement. But close brothers are going to do things like that. My sympathies are with Chris, he seems like a decent guy
Or the Mango Mussolini.
They are brothers no big deal.
So what.
This doesn’t bother me. The headline could be
“Brother gives feedback to other brother who says he’s falsely accused”
Right. I get it. But where’s the body? Who got injured? What’s the bad angle? I honestly don’t see it.
You think they don’t talk? That this would never come up? That one of them would recuse themselves from the pverbial family dinner table if the conversation came up? Like there is a firewall conflict of interest?
Chris chose a side and effectively disclosed that by saying he couldn’t cover it, for obvious reasons.
Compare this to Hannity, who was the other client of Cohen, while he spewed lies and actively misrepresented his relationship with the accused.
That it was in conference calls with Cuomo’s staffers on the line.
Nobody would be saying anything (or know) if the two decided to call each other or chat over dinner.
Strategery conference calls with marching orders to the Guv’s subordinates don’t look great.
In the news business you’re not supposed to involve yourself in the stories or demonstrate any kind of preference. Nobody kids themselves that you don’t have opinions like anyone else, but the ability to keep it to yourself helps create confidence that you can also report impartially and with minimal bias. The fact that you’d naturally want to help a family member in a jam is exactly the reason you should keep your distance.
Ivanka now under criminal investigation.
If he were working on the story (in front of the camera or behind the scenes) I would agree. However, he stated that he is not impartial and he’s not on the story, so imo he is entitled to help in any way he can. I’m not even sure why the fact that a brother is doing all he can to help his brother is a story. If anything, the story is that for some reason we demand less of Supreme Court justices in terms of impartiality than we demand of journalists who are not even working on a story.