Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAndrew Cuomo, the disgraced New York governor who resigned today, was a creature of television.He’d already been a successful politician — a street-fighting candidate turned three-term governor — before his rise to national prominence during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But his daily televised briefings created the perception that Cuomo was the face of the national response to the virus.This perception was badly flawed: For one thing, Cuomo “has been accused of deliberately obscuring the full scope of nursing home deaths in New York” due to his administration’s policy of forcing homes to readmit residents who’d had COVID, according to the New York Times.
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