19 February 2022: CNN's Gollust Helped Cuomo Choose Questions He Would Be Asked by CNN "Journalists"

Former CNN exec Allison Gollust let Andrew Cuomo pick interview topics: report

When it comes to failures of journalism ethics, it doesn't get much bigger than the content of this story involving Cuomo influence network member Allison Gollust at CNN.

Ousted CNN executive Allison Gollust was found to have allowed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to dictate what he wanted to be asked during an on-air interview in the early days of the pandemic, a report said Friday.

Gollust, 49, who briefly worked for the disgraced ex-gov as his communications director, passed the suggested topics along to junior producers, and wrote “Done” in an e-mailed reply to Cuomo’s request before a 2020 interview, The New York Times reported.

The messages were uncovered during an internal investigation into alleged workplace misconduct by since-fired star anchor Chris Cuomo, the report said....

The Post previously reported on former CNN boss Jeff Zucker and his paramour Gollust’s inappropriately close friendship with Andrew Cuomo, including personally calling him to do news segments with his brother and even coaching him on what to say during his COVID briefings....

Zucker knew about many of the exchanges between Gollust and Cuomo, the paper reported.

Zucker was forced to resign, ostensibly for not disclosing his romantic relationship with Gollust. The real catalyst for his dismissal, however, was the cozy relationship that investigators uncovered between Zucker, Gollust and the Cuomos after sifting through thousands of e-mails and texts, according to the report.

What all this means is that CNN's journalistic integrity didn't get shredded by accident. It was an inside job, manipulated by a member of Andrew M. Cuomo's influence network who consistently put Cuomo's political interests ahead of CNN's interest in maintaining any semblance of impartiality or objectivity.

Similar examples can be found at activist organizations such as Times Up and the Human Rights Campaign and at media organizations like Facebook and Kivvit, where other Cuomo influence network members did the same. And that doesn't include Cuomo's operatives who were embedded in positions throughout New York's state government and institutions.