25 May 2021: CNN Insiders "Disgusted" by Cuomo Special Treatment

CNN Insiders Disgusted After Network Seemingly Rolls Over for Chris Cuomo

This report indicates CNN's own staff is disappointed the ethically-compromised Chris Cuomo is escaping any real discipline related to his "inappropriate" conduct involving advising his brother Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff. Here's a series of excerpts from the report:

Multiple network insiders—including current on-air talent and staffers along with recently departed employees—expressed to The Daily Beast that last week’s bombshell news that Cuomo coached his older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in strategy calls on how to respond to sexual-harassment allegations was journalistically and morally unethical and that he should face stronger punishment than the slap on the wrist he seemed to receive from CNN....

“I’m very disappointed in the network,” one current CNN female on-air talent told The Daily Beast. “I think some disciplinary action, at a minimum, was required in this situation.” The on-air talent conceded that the younger Cuomo “was always put in an untenable position,” given his job, but ultimately, she said, “I don't think there were enough guardrails” to prevent this sort of scandal.

“As a woman who works here, I feel a little let down, to be honest,” this on-air personality said....

“Chris Cuomo’s concern for his brother is admirable but working to discredit the multiple women who have accused Andrew Cuomo of sexual impropriety is both journalistically and morally immoral,” added another insider, a regular on-air guest....

“I’m not satisfied with his apology,” the CNN female on-air talent declared. “I thought that was really tone-deaf and useless. He didn't apologize for the worst part—you know, the coaching someone out of sexual harassment. That's the worst part. He didn't say, ‘I stand with women and I believe accusers’… He didn’t say that because he couldn’t.”...

Some network insiders echoed such concerns, with one wondering how CNN will handle the awkwardness of Cuomo inevitably covering another celebrity or politician accused of sexual misconduct.

“Is there just going to be an hour-long blackout every night because Chris Cuomo can't cover it?” asked one insider. “It just feels untenable to me and a very solvable problem that, apparently, the network is not willing to consider.”

Ultimately, insiders who spoke with The Daily Beast said Cuomo will “not be held accountable” by the network.

So, to summarize, CNN "insiders" are disgusted by Chris Cuomo's multiple conflicts of interest and believe he should be canned, but don't think the news network's management and editors have the ethical integrity to address the problem Cuomo presents.

That's how a news outlet's journalistic integrity gets shredded.