As we told you earlier, Vox founder and New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein called out the New York-based media for their soft — if not outright fawning — coverage of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the COVID19 pandemic:
I raged about this at the time but New York's early COVID response was poor. There were better governors and better state policies but the media is based in New York and NYC was a disaster so Cuomo's news conferences got media attention no other governor could touch.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 2, 2021
Cuomo wasn't uniquely ahead-of-the-curve on COVID and so got lionized, and now is falling from grace. It was always a weird convergence of where the media was and where he was, and it overwhelmed the obvious, even then, fact that he wasn't the right protagonist for this story.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 2, 2021
Good on Klein for holding the media to account.
What would have made it even better, though, is if Klein would’ve also included himself in the mix of media who need to be held to account.
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Looks like it’s up to @neontaster:
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) March 2, 2021
“Raged”
Love all these guys trying to rewrite history when we were getting killed for rightly calling out Cuomo at the time.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) March 2, 2021
Check his thread. His proof is a piece in Vox from… German Lopez.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) March 2, 2021
And even that piece was more about how CA reacted so well than substantive criticism of NY & it was pre nursing home stuff (which really came out in May) and the scandals that followed which he ignored.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) March 2, 2021
Ahem:
Ezra did not mention the name Cuomo a single time between April 6, 2020 and yesterday.
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) March 2, 2021
But the rage! The rage!
https://twitter.com/BrianCerv1/status/1366743771023613954
Ah, OK. That must’ve been it.
