NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo was “insulted” that Ye, previously generally known as Kanye West, refused to sit down down with him in individual for the explosive interview earlier this week by which the rapper unleashed a wild, anti-Semitic tirade, a supply advised The Publish.
An individual near the state of affairs mentioned Cuomo, who interviewed Ye on his 8 p.m. present Monday, was significantly miffed that the “Gold Digger” singer had sat down in a studio for Fox Information’ Tucker Carlson final week — however would solely conform to a video interview with Cuomo from the backseat of a automotive.
“Cuomo tried to get Ye to do the interview within the studio,” the supply mentioned. “Chris was insulted that he sat down with Tucker Carlson and that each one he obtained was a Zoom interview from his automotive.”
“Chris thought it was at the very least going to be well-lit,” the supply mentioned of the video name. “He wouldn’t have accepted that at CNN.”
In the meantime, some NewsNation staffers are fuming over Cuomo’s interview with Ye and the fledgling community’s subsequent push to publicize the artist’s anti-Semitic rant on its different primetime reveals.
Insiders mentioned the ratings-challenged community advised Dan Abrams, who hosts the 9 p.m. present after Cuomo, and Ashleigh Banfield, who anchors the ten p.m. hour, to dedicate a prolonged phase to unpacking the feisty interview.
In accordance with insiders, staff and visitors pushed again over giving extra airtime to the unstable artist and Yeezy dressmaker following Monday’s present.
“Folks didn’t wish to seem on the [other two] reveals following Chris Cuomo’s interview as a result of they didn’t wish to discuss anti-Semitism and to present Kanye extra consideration,” one supply mentioned, confirming that some visitors declined to go on the primetime reveals.
“Anybody who thought Kanye regarded silly already thought he was,” the supply mentioned noting that giving the rapper a platform is “harmful.”
“Kanye’s followers can take what they need from the interview,” the supply added.
“I assume the problem is, do you give folks like that a platform?” one other supply mentioned.
Some staff expressed discomfort over the interview, by which Ye mentioned he was focused by the “Jewish underground media mafia,” and that the music business run by Jewish report execs was like “modern-day slavery.”
“It’s disgusting,” mentioned one insider, who pointed to a glowing word from Newsnation’s press crew that was circulated internally amongst workers on Tuesday morning.
The e-mail included clips from what it known as a “highly effective” interview, in addition to excerpts from Cuomo criticizing Ye’s stamenents as “anti-Semitic.”
NewsNation declined to remark.
Regardless of the pushback and poor manufacturing values, sources mentioned Cuomo, who joined NewsNation after getting canned from CNN final yr, remains to be overvalued over his large get.
“Chris thinks he’s the orator of America however his present will get 100,000 folks an evening,” the supply mentioned. “Chris must relax. He’s appearing as if he was Oprah interviewing Meghan Markle!”
In accordance with Nielsen, Cuomo’s interview drew 129,000 complete viewers on Monday. Oprah Winfrey’s aforementioned interview with Markle and Prince Harry garnered 17 million viewers when it aired final yr.
Cuomo has been pushing to get buzzy visitors to juice the community’s anemic rankings. Apart from reruns of “Blue Bloods,” which generally herald round 300,000 viewers per present, Cuomo’s has the second-highest ranked present with between 120,000 and 190,000 viewers on any given evening.
However nabbing newsmakers has been robust for Cuomo, who was fired from CNN within the wake of revelations he secretly aided the protection of his embattled older brother, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo had booked right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for an unique reside interview on Monday after a decide ordered him to pay $965 million to Sandy Hook victims’ households― and the community even publicized the interview. However, Jones failed to look on Monday’s present.
A cause was not given when The Publish reached out for remark.
Different visitors have included HBO’s political discuss present host Invoice Maher, failed mayoral and presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former Fox Information host Invoice O’Reilly.
“NewsNation goes to search for visitors which have followers and a giant viewers already to pump up the rankings,” a supply famous.
NewsNation, which was launched by Nexstar Media Group in 2021 with the mission of being a “fact-based, unbiased” information group, is determining its voice and the place it suits within the fractured media panorama.
“The large query is what does the community wish to be?” added one other supply.
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