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Back in March, former staffer Charlotte Bennett blamed the media “absolutely” for making Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) feel so “untouchable” that he thought he could get away with victimizing her. On Sunday, Fox News media reporter and host of MediaBuzz, Howard Kurtz called out the media for acting like political operatives and minimizing the allegations early on as they now “play catch-up” to make themselves look good.
“Sure it's easy now,” Kurtz proclaimed just seconds into his show, “it's easy for the media to denounce Andrew Cuomo, to decry the sexual harassment findings, to insist like The New York Times and Washington Post that the governor must go. And yet, remember, this is the guy who the pundits lionized last year as a pandemic superstar.”
After playing back-to-back soundbites of MSNBC talking heads fawn for Cuomo, he dressed down the media for trying to ignore the story early on. “But when the first Cuomo accuser came forward in February, there was nothing on the network evening newscasts, nothing initially on MSNBC, a brief mention on CNN, a few sentences of the Today show. Here's how I put it at the time on this program,” he said.
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