Morrisons book, beloved, leading to legislation by material that was vetoed by mcauliffe when he was governor. This is like every issue where each side accuses the other of playing politics when both camps are engaged in. Theres reasons why the media seizes on issues like books, plenty of ordinary folks think theyre important. Im howard kurtz and this is media buzz. Howie ahead, journalist Andrew Sullivan joins us on media intolerance and the latest damaging disclosureses about facebook. When barack obama campaigned for Terry Mcauliffe, he dismissed the Toni Morrison Book Controversy as a conservative media creation. We dont have time to be wasting on these phony trumpedup culture wars, this fake outrage that right wing media pedaled to juice their ratings. Let me tell you about how business works in tv, barack obama. Fox news covers the culture war that you started because its real news. So people come to fox to watch real news. Howie and the pundits pick sides over what liberals pain
Disclosed the claims of sexual hairsment two months after a complaint was filed, accusing him of groping her. i exactly remember looking down, seeing his hand which is a large hand, thinking to myself oh, my god, this is happening. howie: the former new york governor has been charged with forcible sexual misconduct. his spokeswoman said cuomo pfeffer you assaulted anyone. emily, most of the media ignored on minimized the allegations when they first surfaced. now he is facing a criminal charge. local media did the heavy living while national media was taking a back seat to local media. i think some of that has to do with the power that the cuomo press operation, the pr operation has on the national media and that s a statement on the national media sort of compliance with he those operations in and of itself.
He seems to think there is a a future. if we give him a pass this time in the media, that means he has a chance to come back with very few people remembering that he was in fact charged with a sex crime. howie: well, cuomo apologized for certain things. he continued to insist he never touched anybody or any of the serious allegations. less p than three months ago he was the most prominent democratic governor in the country, hailed for his covid briefings, he won an emmy. when we say he s just a former governor, if this kind of charge was brought against a former governor, ron de santis, for example, you think this would be a half day story. absolutely not. these are graphic allegations. there s a woman on the record that talked on the camera about it. what she is accusing him of having done is a terrible thing. it s amazing how little interest there is, given the news value of the story, even as a former
Governor. the point that was made is a smart one. he is trying to come back. he made all of the sort of signals that he s coming back. that gives the sorry even more news value because he s trying to continue to throw his weight around in american politics so the question of his character is completely relevant. howie: howie: you know, msnbc s joy reed and chris hayes couldn t find one minute on their prime time shows to mention this charge against former governor cuomo. i couldn t find a single mention the next morning on the washington post home page, scrolling down to the bottom, there was a story in the print edition. i wonder if the media lost interest us because you say cuomo is old news or whether there s a tendency to move on because they re uncomfortable with the story. i mean, he was a rising star. that makes the story even more consequential in my opinion. he had this potential people talked about him as as a potential presidential candidate. he was the bright shining ligh