NewsNation host Dan Abrams is defending the network’s decision to hire Chris Cuomo, who was fired from CNN last year over his connection to the scandals of his brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
Abrams spoke with Cuomo this week in his first interview since exiting the cable news channel. After the discussion between the two men was over, the announcement came out that the former CNN host would join the network this fall.
“Regardless of what you think about Chris, I noticed a trend among those who wrote about NewsNation yesterday,” Abrams, per Mediaite.
“Many of the outlets who ran stories on the big news have gone out of their way to minimize this network by focusing on our status as a newcomer and/or our ratings in their coverage.”
The Mediaite founder went on to say that their network is growing and they’re trying to target the central audience, and their interview with Cuomo has ruffled some feathers on coverage from both sides.
“Seeing all this coverage trying to minimize us drove home such a crucial point for me, and it’s a big reason, part of the reason I’m here. The politicized media wants NewsNation to fail,” Abrams added.
“In the media landscape full of extremists, a network that gives voice to a moderate point of view is an outlier, or a disrupter. We represent an existential threat to a media which, for so long, has profited off of driving us to the fringes.”
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That is it for NewsNation for me. I had hoped you were less like CNN and CNBC. You hire a skez ball like Chris Cuomo. I’m out.