Another Cuomo Bites The Dust

Although I will not post lists of winners and losers of the year that the end of the year or any other year going forward, I do have to admit . . .  2021 hasn't been a good year for anyone named Cuomo.

Chris Cuomo, a star anchor at CNN, has been fired when it turned out that he helped his brother Andrew deal with sexual harassment allegations much more than he admitted to.  He crossed the line from being a journalist reporting on the story to being a politician's brother being a part of the story, and it was conduct unbecoming a reporter.  As Chris Cuomo has a law school education, he should have known what he did amounted to a  lack of journalistic ethics.

CNN did the right thing and it should be an example for how a responsible cable-news outlet should react to such conduct,  Meanwhile, at Fox News, Tucker Carlson is allowed to be an advocate for right-wing extremism based on lies, and Laura Ingraham is so insufferable for her blatant bigotry and intolerance that she actually makes me miss Megyn Kelly.  Maybe Fox News is getting the message, to some extent.  After comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to Josef Mengele, former serious reporter Lara Logan has suddenly disappeared from the airwaves, albeit without an explanation from Fox.  Her show "Lara Logan Has No Agenda" has been displaced by the fact that Lara Logan has no program.

At at moment when nightly cable commentary programs are in flux, with Rachel Maddow planning to move from nightly commentary and reporting to producing and hosting documentaries, it will be interesting to see how CNN handles things going forward.  In the meantime, Michael Smerconish will fill in Cuomo's 9 PM Eastern tie slot, and at MSNBC, there's still Lawrence O'Donnell at 10: 00 Eastern.

Oh yeah, I didn't want to bring it up, but Chris Cuomo has been fired for a second reason; there's a sexual harassment charge against him.  I'm just glad their father Mario isn't alive to see any of this.  At least Andrew's and Chris's sisters haven't stained the family name; ironically, they can't carry it on to the next generation.