As Cuomo’s Many Scandals Live On, TV News Goes Silent

Just three months ago, the airwaves were filled with damaging news about New York’s Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, accused of harassing at least nine women, as well as concealing the true toll of nursing home fatalities in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Yet like a light switch, the broadcast networks abruptly ended their negative coverage of Cuomo in late March. Between January 28 and March 29, Media Research Center analysts tallied just over 100 minutes of Cuomo scandal coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening newscasts, yet not a single second in the 12 weeks that have followed.-- More...