Friday, May 21, 2021

21 May 2021: The Toxic, Shrinking World of Cuomo in His Bunker

Chris Cuomo Secretly Advised Brother to Fight Sexual-Misconduct Allegations

This is the first time we've ever featured the same report at the lead of two separate timeline entries. The report stands out because in addition to its main topic of coverage, the unethical journalistic misconduct of CNN's Chris Cuomo acting as an advisor to his scandal-plagued brother Governor Andrew Cuomo for how to present himself to the news media, it also describes the diminished world of Governor Cuomo:

As for the reasoning that the governor would expose his brother at the second-most-watched news network to such an obvious conflict of interest, one of Cuomo’s advisers told the Post that the “governor only trusts about five people … so that’s why Chris is on these calls.” (It appears that the governor’s development of a toxic workplace has closed the circle of people he can rely upon.)

We've noticed the word "toxic" keeps coming up in relation to the culture New York Governor Cuomo has established during his three terms in office. Here's a sampling of that recurrence from the timeline:

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