But yes, that’s the thing: Mario would not pull the trigger on going for the Big Show — which his sons seem to have seen as tasking them with making an even bigger splash. By all signs he was on the edge more than once but he was willing to take a pass. Maybe because he knew where he could be attacked, if you wish to speculate, but in the end the fact is it enabled him to ride into the sunset with a legacy and leaving people wishing for what might have been.
I remember an SNL skit, back when Bush Senior was at the height of his post-Gulf War popularity, premised on Democratic candidates having a debate where they’re trying to avoid getting nominated so they wouldn’t be the one that inevitably loses to Bush. (Yes, it is ironic in hindsight.) Phil Hartman played Mario Cuomo and talked about how the New York economy was a shambles under his mismanagement and that he had ties to organized crime.
34 years ago today: Waiting for Mario.
Brother Chris has been “suspended indefinitely” from CNN, because he appears to have been involved in some way in all of this. What “involved” and “all of this” means will come out eventually, I hope.
His involvement was already somewhat known. He had to know the other shoe would eventually drop so this was a slow career walk to the gallows.
What pushed CNN to the point of suspending him was not so much what he did with his brother, but what he said on-air about it. In other words, a strong case can be made that he deliberately misled viewers.
Unless you’re working for the Murdochs, that’s going to be a problem.
Soon, the mods will have to change the title of this thread to “Cuomo[s] might be in some trouble [has resigned]”
This is big news because Chris Cuomo was, along with Anderson Cooper, one of CNN’s top and most-watched prime-time anchors. I imagine it’s a bit embarrassing for CNN after the debacle with Jeffrey Toobin
I think I read somewhere (nice cite, eh?) that CNN was working towards a “news only” format to come.
There is also a weird and admittedly very small coterie of twitterers who have recently posted along the lines of “well, if my brother was in trouble, I’d do what I could to help him, too.” Though he quickly apologized, political analyst Matt Yglesias was among them.
Sure, help those close to you but not at the expense of innocent victims. Chris Cuomo clearly crossed an ethical and professional line here. That’s a very Trumpian thing to do and we can’t be normalizing it.
On that topic, this previous thread might be of interest. Although, unfortunately, the poll results didn’t carry over after the move to Discourse, there were some Dopers unwilling to turn in even a serial-killer loved one: Poll: For what crime(s) would you turn in a loved one?
CNN is circling the drain, and this isn’t going to help. CNN is getting its ass iicked by MSNBC, which in turn is getting its ass kicked by Fox, which now routinely gets more audience for its shows than the other two networks combined.
CNN just went through a month where not a single show averaged more than a million viewers - and their top show was Cuomo’s.
There are a lot of Youtube channels that routinely get more viewers per episode than CNN does. And no one takes them seriously as ‘news’ anymore after all the scandals and lies. They don’t even have the airport contract any more.
The president of Warner has said he’s going to get rid of the personalities and politics shows and go back to straight 24/7 news reading. That won’t help their ratings, but it will lower their costs, which they need to do with the pathetic audience they have left.
This is the difference. When someone one the so-called left does something wrong, people say Well, they did wrong. On the right, they would be yelling It’s a conspiracy!
I find it very sad that we judge news based on its ratings rather than its accuracy.
Quite true, ask former Sen. Al Franken.
(and that we judge a candidate’s viability by how much money they’ve raised)
Well, that’s the advantage of having an audience that gets all their news from a tiny partisan bubble -they’re all concentrated on one or two news sources.
That said, God knows I don’t watch CNN. They’ve been trivial and stupid since the First Gulf War.
Does anyone under 50 still watch news on television?
All the news I get, I get right here at SDMB.
How the mighty cuomos have fallen. Chris Cuomo has been terminated from cnn, effective immediately, over helping his brother.