Protecting Their Own? Nets Censor Chris Cuomo Advising Brother in Scandal

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 4, 2021
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The liberal broadcast networks were dragged kicking and screaming when Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) sexual misconduct scandals got too big and serious to ignore earlier this year. But now that the investigative report from New York Attorney General Letitia James was out, ABC, CBS, and NBC were omitting how CNN “journalist” and brother to the Governor, Chris Cuomo was exposed as having been a crucial part of the Governor’s defense.

And although all three of their evening newscasts continued to hammer away at Andrew on Wednesday, none of them wanted to damage their industry by admitting that a journalist was helping to craft the official defense that lied to the public and smeared victims of sexual misconduct.

Instead, we got ABC’s World News Tonight talking about emperor penguins possibly going extinct in the year 2100, CBS Evening News moaning about former President Obama having to scale back his birthday party, and NBC Nightly News touted President Biden giving $100 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Lebanon.

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