During an appearance on CNN’s weekly media show, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple took the opportunity to call out the network for allowing anchor Chris Cuomo to conduct a series of fawning “love-a-thon” interviews with his brother Andrew Cuomo last year, deeming the chats a “major black eye” for CNN.
With calls for Andrew Cuomo to resign as governor of New York growing amid scandals over sexual harassment and covering up COVID-related nursing home deaths, CNN has found itself widely (and justifiably) criticized for last year’s chummy Cuomo-on-Cuomo TV segments.
In the wake of his brother’s controversies, meanwhile, the CNN anchor has said he couldn’t cover it due to CNN reinstating its ban on him reporting on the governor. This only prompted further criticism and brought renewed attention to the network allowing its host to previously lend his platform to his brother to tout his own leadership on the pandemic.
