CNN Reliable Sources calls out CNN’s ‘love-a-thon interviews’ between Andrew and Chris Cuomo

The Daily Beast

On CNN's Reliable Sources this morning, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple called out the news network for allowing anchor Chris Cuomo to conduct a series of fawning “love-a-thon” interviews with his brother Andrew Cuomo last year, describing the conversations a “major black eye” for CNN. “I would be remiss, Brian, if I didn’t mention CNN’s own huge media story here with Chris Cuomo,” Wemple told Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter during a Sunday morning segment on media coverage of the New York governor. Wemple added that the anchor had “all of these wonderful love-a-thon interviews,” noting that CNN “suspended the conflict of interest rule for Chris Cuomo for those interviews, yet all of a sudden they’ve enforced it again now that Andrew Cuomo is in the midst of a historic scandal in the Albany statehouse.”