Debating The News Value Of CNN’s Cuomo-On-Cuomo Interviews

For almost two weeks, CNN's Chris Cuomo has been broadcasting from his basement while fighting the corona virus and if that wasn't strange enough, his brother Andrew, the governor of New York, making late-night appearances is clearly a conflict of interest. , but as CNN discovered. it's also a ratings bonanza Adam Reilly has more on March 31 CNN's Cuomo primetime had a different look and a very different feel Say positive, scare, yes, as you can imagine, but better me than you after announce his coronavirus diagnosis on Twitter Cuomo decided The show must continue for the past week and a half that he has been broadcasting from his basement criticizing the president, chronicling his own recovery and advising others fighting the disease.

You have to breathe deeply when it hurts and hurts. I know it hurts, but Cuomo has done it too. Since he has been interviewing his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, something CNN has allowed him to do for the past six years, the exchanges can be tense. You and the mayor have been seen in New York slowly understanding each other. The first thing I tell them is to look in a mirror before they open their mouth, true, but sometimes they are lighter, I just say: let it go, let yourself go, baby, you know you can't control and either way it's fascinating television , but as many critics have noted, it's also a huge conflict of interest with all this adulation you're getting for doing your job.

Are you thinking about running for president? I think Anderson agrees with me, we had suggested you not work right now, but once you start watching it's hard to look away. I agree with Adam dan Lothian, have you been watching? Is it difficult to look away? It's hard to look away. It's entertainment and that's why CNN has gone back to their guidelines and stated that they didn't allow him to interview his brother, but they realized that in these times this is something that is not only entertaining but is getting ratings of audience and is a business today personally.

Although I feel like it's a conflict of interest, there have been a few times when you end up in situations like this, it can be a real conflict of interest, so you know one brother is trying to help the other for political gain. Sometimes it's the right look, so even if it's not, there's no reason for it other than to have his brother on the air to give good information, as long as the audience sings it sitting at home and says "although you know when ". It was hard on him, they came up with this plan to make it seem like he was, you know, being a real reporter here or when you have fun with him, you know, this is all about developing his brother's personality. to help him later run for president, even if only that one's parents are there and the public believes that to be the case.

I think that's wrong, it contains the wrong message and I don't think they should interview each other even though it's tore it apart, so John, as Dan alluded to in 2013, Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, who was also, of course, the Boy Wonder behind the Today Show and many other programs, said that there is no more nonsense for Chris Cuomo, you are not going to interview him. your brother on TV, you're even his, I think he had just been elected at the time, I don't remember what this guy's status was, I think it was anyway, he said that's not going to work, it's a conflict of interest and I think he used those terms and then when Chris got sick, he made an exception because by then the governor of New York was already halfway through this enormous national interest in what was happening in New York City and because he had a such a powerful voice because he was talking to all of us the way we wish our president was, so he made the exception, but something funny happened along the way, it became a big show and suddenly Jeff Zucker realized he had a great success in your hands.

Emily, are you suggesting that Jeff Zucker compromised his ethical principles in pursuing ratings. I'm surprised to hear you would suggest that I mean, first of all, Chris Cuomo isn't really a trip after what he doesn't do journalism, it's infotainment, let's get after it, let's go. and in the context of infotainment I don't see how this is a conflict as long as it is revealed. I don't know if they should have a message underneath saying that by the way, these two guys are brothers, seeing them tells you that 'We're brothers, so I don't have a problem with that.' I can see why he's getting good ratings and you know I'm watching the other night and Chris Cuomo

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Joe Biden and a good portion of the interview time was spent on sloppy kisses. and onwards the references to Oh, how is your mother and all kinds of family ties that again tell you that this is not German, no, it is not from one of the programs the other night, I mean, because a lot of it has been serious, but as you rightly point out that a lot of this has devolved and recently into this kind of banter, take a look, my decision is and, as I posted very early today, before anyone else responded to the call that you did, I will stay home for my mother because I love her and at her age she is exceptionally vulnerable to the virus, who are you staying home for?

Because I stay at home for my mom. Yes, the entire campaign is dedicated to my mother and I said it first thing this morning when I posted. my photo I stay home or I stay home for your mom too, isn't that weird? Although after I said it no, I went first, there you go, dad, this is entertaining. I have to say this, while Chris Cuomo is a gentleman, his show may not be. You know your journalism, but he was doing the morning show at one point? He's a journalist, he sits with the

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, so I think if you're a journalist and you move on to another hour, you know, while the show itself may not. being journalism, some of the ethical considerations that surround you as a journalist should follow you wherever you go and that's why I still feel like you know, given the look of this, as entertaining as it is, I don't think they should be interviewed each other, but Lemak I mean, I understand what you're saying, so I want you to know that Bill O'Reilly really started this genre, you know and successfully, that you could have an opinion and be a journalist.

I'm not sure John Keller would totally agree, though John you. You're allowed to give your opinion, you're an opinion writer, look, you know Anderson Cooper. I think he is a great journalist, one of the best in the business, he is not afraid to express. I don't know if you call it opinion, but he takes an advantage and to calm himself he makes comments about their show and they, you know, try to separate it a little bit, but all these lines have been blurred for some time, I think when you tune into a cable network on prime time.

You should know that here you are going to find a hodgepodge; It won't be the kind of direct, conventional journalism that's required, but there's been some really harsh criticism - the New York Post published an op-ed that was really cruel, you know, classifying this and Margaret Sullavan had some criticism - well, others They say it's like reading, you know there are no fun pages, but you know a soft feature that the Washington Post still has soft features. The New York Post still publishes as many sports stories as it can, it's just one of a variety of literally thousands of things you can find across the cable spectrum at night, so what's the problem?

Yeah, I don't see what the problem is. You know the whole family connection and the jokes about who mom liked best and all that, first of all, it's an old joke. The Smothers Brothers were doing that 60 years ago and in this moment our family has taken on greater meaning. for a lot of us, yeah, I think it's a nice thing, you know, anything is good, the bottom line here is that CNN thought it was a big deal because they didn't allow it for a long period of time, so if they thought it was well, they wouldn't have done it in the first place, but now you know they realize it's a success and you're right Emily, you know the fool will never pass up a good success even if you have to go back to his original rule.

Whatever your embers are, that's fine, Dan Lothian John Keller, thanks for joining us.