The saga surrounding the CNN host tells us a lot about American cable news
There’s a lot to learn from CNN’s firing of Chris Cuomo. A lot about American cable news, ego and television’s tolerance of the ridiculous.
CNN had simply had enough. What’s remarkable is that it took so long to reach the point of Cuomo being fired. What we can extrapolate is that Cuomo’s popularity on CNN was the channel’s priority for a long time. He’s the epitome of a cable news host: a big presence, a booming voice and an aggressive style. Across the spectrum of cable news, on Fox News and MSNBC, there are figures just like him, men and women who command the camera and the audience with bluster and pomposity.
Chris Cuomo’s sense of self-importance was the engine driving everything from that brother act to his deep involvement in Andrew’s attempts to defend against a sexual harassment scandal. Only an idiot would think that such political involvement would not have consequences in his media job. But there’s always been something of the buffoon about Chris Cuomo, and John Oliver was the first to spot the buffoonery beneath the cable news host’s bluster.
“But the oddest feature of Chris Cuomo’s Instagram is just videos of him working out,” Oliver said. “There are many, many videos of him lifting, sweating and grunting. And look, far be it from me to judge Chris Cuomo. His triceps are wider than my entire body. But something about his thirst pit of an Instagram feels a little desperate for approval, no more so than with his constant efforts to get his catchphrase to happen.
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