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Chris Cuomo was fired by CNN after it was revealed that he used media contacts to help his brother, Andrew Cuomo.

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The house is on fire. Maybe we should stand back and look at the flames.

CNN fired Cuomo for ethical violations, and he asked for a $125 million award from an arbiter.

Cuomo has a lack of ethics. The reason for demanding enough money to make a tech exec jealous is novel.

Cuomo drags Lemon into the mud

Cuomo used to refer to Don Lemon as his brother.

The actor testified under oath that Lemon had tipped him off that the police in Chicago didn't buy his story that a pair of men in a hat beat him up and tied a rope around his neck.

Actor Jussie Smollett speaks to Judge James Linn after his sentence is read at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Chicago. Smollett maintained his innocence during his sentencing hearing Thursday after a judge sentenced the actor to 150 days in jail for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated himself.
Actor Jussie Smollett speaks to Judge James Linn after his sentence is read at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Chicago. Smollett maintained his innocence during his sentencing hearing Thursday after a judge sentenced the actor to 150 days in jail for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack that he orchestrated himself.

When the fable was first told, hardly anyone outside the corridors of CNN believed it. Chicago cops, who hear more credible stories from eighth- graders, had their doubts.

I don't think so. It was an ethical violation for Don Lemon to alert the cops to the fact that he was a journalist, just like it was an ethical violation for a politician to cobble together a defense against sexual harassment allegations.

She challenged Putin on live TV. She is in a Russian jail cell.

Cuomo's lawyers wrote in the filing that texting in the ongoing investigation was an ethics violation.

There was an egregious violation of ethics. The employer looks in a different direction. Cuomo knows all about that.

Lawyers blast Toobin, too

Jeffrey Toobin, the news network's chief legal analyst, was fired by The New Yorker after he was caught having sex with someone.

CNN welcomed Toobin back into the family last June despite what Cuomo's lawyers describe as a sordid act of sexual harassment.

There are ethical violations. Sexual harassment. Chris Cuomo is the governor of New York. These words keep colliding.

Big government should keep its hands off my watch.

Team Cuomo calls to the stand the former CNN President Jeff Zucker, who resigned in February after his personal relationship with Allison Gollust was revealed. Gollust resigned as well.

Zucker and Gollust were more than willing to overlook major transgressions by CNN personalities such as Don Lemon and Jake Tapper, or even to engage in blatant misconduct themselves.

Cuomo got to the crux of it. It was always about ratings. What is the value of an old-fashioned ethical standard or two to a journalistic celebrity who can attract enough eyeballs to pay rock-star level salaries?

I grew up in Russia. I'm fighting for Ukraine now.

CNN is the best reality TV series going. When the Cuomo vs. Lemon vs. Zucker cage match is ready for a rumble, who needs Desperate Housewives of Missoula?

I like to call it the real world, and the timing of Cuomo's dive into the mud is sad. There is a war going on. I mean a real war, not the one inside CNN.

War coverage has been outstanding

CNN's journalists have shown a masterful level of skill and professionalism in covering the war in Ukraine. It is time for them to report the news without distraction and to be appreciated by their peers.

As Russia advances, Illarion Pavliuk makes a stop.

Chris Cuomo has shown that it is possible to discipline bad journalism.

Journalists from dozens of other news outlets have shown every day for the past three weeks why good journalism is so important.

Cuomo might eventually get his money. I will put my money on the ones who understand that serving their audience is more important than serving themselves.

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