In news that should surprise no one, Chris "Fredo" Cuomo has been fired by CNN.
This was the right choice. He weaponized his position as a CNN anchor to aid his brother's defense of sexual harassment charges.
There are a lot of ways that you can support your family members without making a full frontal attack on the integrity of journalism, and Cuomo did not choose any of these:
Just four days after announcing that he would be indefinitely suspended from the network, CNN has terminated its star host Chris Cuomo following an investigation conducted by a law firm that it said had turned up “additional information” about him.
Cuomo was suspended by CNN on Tuesday, a day after documents released by New York Attorney General Letitia James showed that he was more extensively involved in helping to defend his brother, then-Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D), against allegations of sexual misconduct than he had acknowledged — either publicly or to CNN management.
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In a statement on Saturday evening, the network said that it had “retained a respected law firm” to review Cuomo’s involvement in his brother’s crisis-management efforts and that “in the process of that review, additional information has come to light. Despite the termination, we will investigate as appropriate.”
The network did not say what that “additional information” related to.
This is the money quote from the article:
Most significantly for his role at CNN, the documents showed that Cuomo leaned on his journalistic sources to glean information about forthcoming articles that could negatively impact his brother and his futile fight to keep the governorship.
“When asked, I would reach out to sources, other journalists, to see if they had heard of anybody else coming out,” he told investigators, referring to the potential for additional women to accuse his brother of misconduct.
In particular, Cuomo called around to find out about the timing for an article published by New Yorker writer Ronan Farrow, though he didn’t call Farrow directly. When asked by investigators whether he had informed CNN management about his outreach regarding the Farrow article, he acknowledged he had not, arguing that it was “business-as-usual” for a journalist to check in with peers about impending articles.
In one message released as part of the investigation, Cuomo informed a top aide to the governor, Melissa DeRosa, to that he had a “lead” about a woman who had accused his brother of improper behavior at a wedding.
He abused his position to benefit his brother. His firing is completely justified.
I hope that the staff on his show keeps their jobs though.
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