Chris Cuomo is Torching CNN
If Chris Cuomo is going down, he is taking CNN with him: He’s suing the network and airing all prime time’s dirty laundry.
“This action is about the unlawful termination of Claimant Chris Cuomo (“Cuomo”) by Respondent Turner Services, Inc. (“Turner”), an affiliate of Respondent CNN America, Inc. (“CNN”) based on Turner’s false claims that Cuomo violated CNN’s standards and practices by assisting his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, during a time of political crisis,” began an explosive legal brief filed on Wednesday by former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo against his one-time employer.
“In fact, Cuomo fully complied with CNN’s standards and practices, including keeping CNN executives apprised of his actions at all times,” the brief read. “Turner’s unjustifiable termination of Cuomo reflects nothing more than an apparent rush to judgement and caving to uninformed public and internal pressure that was based on speculation and assumption rather than facts and evidence.”
It is a somewhat ironic twist: The media network that helped turn the news into a tabloid punchline has itself become grist for the ad-click mill it created.
The whole gleaming edifice of CNN seems to have been crashing down brick by brick lately, sagging under the weight of scandal after scandal after scandal. And that is to say nothing of the major errors in…