https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/1...
And he published a fucking book in October: https://www.amazon.com/American-Crisis-Leadership-COVID-19-P...
Broken doesn't even begin to describe it....
He has like 7 credible assault victims accusing him. And the "media" protects him.
Riddle me that. His ass should have been out on the sidewalk a long time ago.
The "media" is complicit.
Weirdly enough I didn't know he was given an Emmy but I have seen wall to wall coverage of the accusations against him and calls for him to resign from dozens of democrat leaders including the Senate Majority Leader.
SNL (pretty much centrist-liberal) has been trashing him on both fronts -- calling out the nursing home deaths on weekend update and even a very long cold open raking him over the coals for the abuse stuff.
Seth Meyers (easily the farthest left network host) has been dragging him hard on both fronts on Late Night as well.
The only opinions I've seen expressed by people in my social media sphere for months are that he's an absolute dirtbag - the man is canceled. I think the real point you are approaching is that most of the time "canceling" someone doesn't really do much.
Better late than never and all that, but I don’t see anything noble about waiting to speak out until it becomes politically untenable to wait any longer.
Look harder then. They're not difficult to find.
When you treat "media" as a monolithic, moving with unified purpose, you're going to make mistakes just like this one.
"media" is diverse enough that you kind people you can disagree with when you look. So it's no doubt true that there is media out there that is defending Cuomo. But that doesn't mean there is some vast conspiracy, or even wide spread collusion, as you seem to be implying.
Not even close to what I was saying.
And yes, the "media" as in the NBC variants, CNN, CBS, ABC, NPR, etc. seem to all mimic/amplify each others reporting. Doesn't need to be a conspiracy, and I don't think it is.
It is, however, a uniform political and cultural narrative, that actively defends itself from information that runs counter to it. Whether or not there is coordination is irrelevant. That this collection of "media" somehow manages to bury important (real) information, in favor of what they would like to say, is highly problematic for what one might call, actual news.
So no ... to your point, I do not believe the strawman you constructed and then swatted comes anywhere close to what I was specifically talking about. However, denial of the mutual reinforcement and exclusion of information that runs counter to their collective narrative ... that's a deep and fundamental failure of critical thinking.
TIL by watching multiple DVR-ed news shows from the same night while visiting family...
It is eerie the extent to which the nightly national news stories are the nearly same across the various old networks. With a whole country of stories to pick from the network news is, anecdotally, 80%+ the same many nights. Not only the topics but also the story structure, the chosen sequence of video clips, etc.
Also all this took place when he received a multi million dollar advance for his book "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic", and remember this crazy thing https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/arts/design/cuomo-covid-p... how is any of this real?!?!
I think the "smarter" one is, the more gullible they are. As someone with a PhD, I try very hard not to be gullible ... I can't say I always succeed. But I am highly skeptical of everything I hear/read. That skepticism helps.
I’d just say that even if someone is educated well in one field - it doesn’t mean that they’re generally well educated or that they have good critical thinking skills outside of their field. I’m surrounded by PhDs - they’re all great at their field, terrible at everything else. Min/Maxed their stats very hard there.
It's a stone that will only be moved by future technology. Perhaps a mastery of biology/neurology or more. Until then, it is essentially unchangeable.
A PhD holder is a PhD holder, at least in part, because they trusted that the many 1000's of hours of study and hard work they put into to receive a certificate from an institution was worth it. And this is because they, at some level, trust the institution itself.
Presumably this trust can also transfer to other "authorities", like US cable new media companies.
Emmys are usually given for works of fiction.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...
As did The NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/nyregion/nursing-home-dea...
Actually, it was covered in May of 2020 in the Daily Wire.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-health-dept-admits-to-unde...
The coverage bias on both sides is enormous, and there's enough news to cover that it's easy to overlook inconvenient truths (or relegate them to page B-47).
Tangle is a daily newsletter that provides links to coverage from both sides. VERY fair reporting. Ground News highlights stories that have been covered by only one side of the aisle.
Your lack of cynicism is admirable. An alternative hypothesis is that it is working as designed; the treatment of the NY governor is a feature not a bug.
- Avenatti
- Cuomo
- Lincoln Project
Not too confident about Fauci and Schiff.
Democrats gave a hero’s welcome to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo despite his mistake-filled early response to the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/cuomo-n...
That’s what leaders are supposed to do, and that is what the public craves. Unfortunately, POTUS just wasn’t capable of filling that function for a variety of reasons.
I think most of those mistakes were understood as the state government was caught unaware and so little was known. We’ve seen similar tragedy in different states and countries — managing a pandemic is difficult.
That's what leaders are supposed to do, and that is what the public craves. Unfortunately, Hindenburg just wasn't capable of filling that function for a variety of reasons.'
Means do not justify ends.
It has been for a while. Most of the major "news" media organizations are anything but news. That people actually believe what they hear, and then act upon this ... often ... misinformation ... is horrifying. That they have ardent supporters who insist that X really is news while Y is not ... well ... no.
If you want news in the US about the US, listen to BBC America. It is the least biased, narrative embracing, propaganda pushing, site around. There may be others that are workable as news sites. But none from the US.
We are simply unable to learn from even the recent past. Every generation has to personally try every bad idea to figure out why its a bad idea.
The BBC is incredibly biased in terms of British affairs, or so I've heard, but it stands to reason that they'd be more willing to be objective about what's going on in America.
Corporate media hates that system.
A large swath of the media was busy at the time trying to put Cuomo on a pedestal as a kind of counter-Trump.
Because it would have diminished the relentless message emanating from almost everywhere that Trump, and Trump alone, was singlehandedly responsible for every single COVID19 death in the US.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1356655957976244225 https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/15/new-york-coronavirus-repo...
I've looked at cnn.com a few times, and at least their homepage appears to be dictated solely by the left. The hagiography on Kamala Harris a couple days ago looked literally like something the CCP would publish: "Kamala is the last person in the room", etc. I thought VPs were supposed to just golf? Why is Kamala shadowing Biden if he's not senile? (She's in just about every public picture of Biden, standing just behind him.)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/25/politics/kamala-harris-cnntv/...
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, Twitter has said they regret suppressing the Hunter Biden story before the election, and WaPo issued a retraction on their quote of Trump asking an election official to redo results (that quote was one of the Pelosi's "reasons" for the second impeachment.)
https://nypost.com/2021/03/25/dorsey-says-blocking-posts-hun...
https://nypost.com/2021/03/15/washington-post-runs-correctio...
The more you compare the MSM with actual events, the less they match.
Yet he may well stay in office. It's a one-party state, if his allies in the party hold the line it'll all blow over.
Meanwhile, CNN put him on the air, to be heralded as a great and inspiring leader by his own brother, a CNN mouth piece, that got state funded special treatment when he had covid. Now CNN simply refuses to report on it.
The media landscape is beyond broken in this country.