CNN and MSNBC are covering Governor Cuomo’s sexual harassment accusations, but only as lightly as possible so they can say they didn’t ignore the story:
Wow. This is severely perfunctory coverage of the harassment allegations against Cuomo. This is CYA coverage given so they can claim they covered it. You can tell because it's not followed by several minutes of breathless punditry. Nope, not a word of editorializing on this story pic.twitter.com/hakYuu6dUu
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) February 26, 2021
Regarding the allegations against Gov. Cuomo, @jaketapper says "CNN has been unable to corroborate Boylan's allegations."
I bet CNN's audience was shocked to find out that corroboration is required.
And that the allegations against Cuomo even exist. pic.twitter.com/E0QTPtfMVa
— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) February 26, 2021
Eddie Zipperer is right. If this were say, Trump, they would have had pundits on to talk about it, scandalizing it and making it a huge story. But Cuomo only gets barely more than a minute of coverage on each.
ABC’s GMA covered it this morning and I think they did a better job, but that’s still a pretty low bar:
CBS This Morning covered it yesterday and may have done the best job of them all, giving it over 3 minutes and showcasing others who have accused Governor Cuomo of bad behavior:
I looked on NBC’s Today Show and couldn’t find diddly squat about it.