You're the firm you retain — and the sleaze you defend.
What a comeuppance for Jeff Zucker, who stood by former star anchor and one-time BFF Chris Cuomo via a number of scandals.
There was no breach of journalistic ethics Chris Cuomo couldn’t commit, it appeared, with out Zucker making excuses and exemptions for that self-important mediocrity.
Run across the Hamptons as Chris did, maskless and COVID-positive, but lecture America each night time on greatest practices? Certain.
To not state the apparent, however: That is an ostensible information community. A information community that prides itself on being full of ethical rectitude.
But Chris went on to pretend his emergence from pretend quarantine on-air; to fuzz-up brother Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s picture, at the same time as Andrew despatched previous folks to their sure deaths; and to make use of his energy and affect to smear the ladies credibly accusing Andrew of sexual misconduct.
Zucker, a lifelong community information vet, had issues with none of it. He was all too completely satisfied presiding over the idiocy and hypocrisy of Chris Cuomo’s tenure.
It all the time made me marvel: What would possibly Chris have on Zucker? If Andrew’s so horrible, and Chris is so horrible, why would Zucker align with them? Until he was truly just like the Cuomo brothers too — equally horrible?
I discover it onerous to consider, within the #MeToo period, that Zucker’s consensual affair with an age-appropriate, high-ranking feminine colleague — one along with her personal ties to Andrew, by the best way — rises to a fireable offense.
Recall that Zucker presided over Matt Lauer’s rise at “In the present day,” and Lauer’s horrible remedy of feminine colleagues was an open secret again then, too.
If Zucker was superb with Lauer’s predations, and Andrew Cuomo’s, and with Chris breaking nearly each code the career holds expensive — effectively, it’s not onerous to think about there is likely to be extra to come back.
The fish, in spite of everything, rots from the pinnacle.
But Zucker had the temerity to run CNN because the righteous spine of cable information, permitting his doubtful roster of on-air expertise and producers, some with their very own sexual predations and ethics breaches (paging Don Lemon), to lecture us night time after night time.
It’s all been so unbearable.
Any clear-thinking particular person might have informed Jeff Zucker that the Cuomo brothers are rubbish, that their loyalty solely ever extends to one another. How poetic that Chris Cuomo, in preventing for his vulgar, unearned $18 million payout, betrayed the one man who stood by him.
And, I think, could betray him extra nonetheless. They don’t name him Fredo for nothing.
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