Tuesday, April 20, 2021

20 April 2021: Mobile Billboard Campaign to Revoke Governor Cuomo's Emmy Award

Billboard campaign declares Gov. Cuomo's Emmy should be revoked over NY nursing home crisis

This report covers a publicity effort to revoke Governor Cuomo's International Emmy Award because of his role in contributing to the very high death toll at New York's nursing homes because of his administration's deadly 25 March 2020 directive. Here's an excerpt:

A conservative media watchdog group launched a billboard campaign on Monday calling for embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have his Emmy award revoked over his role in the COVID-19 crisis at the state’s nursing homes.

Accuracy in Media, placed a mobile billboard outside its midtown Manhattan headquarters displaying the phrase "Cuomo Lied, Thousands Died: Revoke his Emmy Now." The group argued that Cuomo’s policies were "directly responsible" to thousands of deaths at New York nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic and called on the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to revoke the Emmy that Cuomo received for his televised briefings.

"At a time when corporations are expected to make statements about social justice causes and move out of states that are deemed politically incorrect, the Academy has been silent about giving an award to a man whose policies were directly responsible for thousands of nursing home deaths, and who covered it up," Accuracy in Media said in a post on its website. "Let’s record an accurate record of the pandemic and demand the Academy revoke his Emmy now — the victims and their families deserve it."

We've embedded a tweet showing a photo of the mobile billboard:

Here's the timeline's coverage of Governor Cuomo's controversial International Emmy Award:

The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences continues to remains silent on whether it will revoke its special award to Governor Cuomo.

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