Washington Post columnist Helaine Olen wrote Saturday that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his brother, former CNN primetime anchor, Chris Cuomo “still don't know” what they did wrong.
pandemic. She called the interviews"cringe-inducing, but popular" and questioned Chris Cuomo's"agency to say no" to Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust, who he says were the ones demanding the brothers appear together on CNN's primetime slot. Olen also pointed to the former governor's nursing home order that said facilities had to accept patients who were recovering from COVID-19.
ANDREW CUOMO BLASTS CNN FOR FIRING HIS BROTHER CHRIS, CLAIMS NETWORK WAS AFRAID OF ‘CANCEL CULTURE MOB’ In another column published Saturday, The Washington Post's media critic Erik Wemple similarly criticized the Cuomo brothers. He, too, noted the brothers' pandemic interviews in 2020, arguing that's when the"dysfunction" started.
"If Cuomo’s reputation has already been injured, his arbitration demand itself may deepen the wounds," he wrote. CNN host Chris Cuomo asked his brother’s top aide if he could help prep the governor amid sexual misconduct allegations, according to a newly released transcript of her testimony to New York state investigators in July.