Mainstream media ignores sexual harassment allegations against NY Gov. Cuomo

Mainstream media outlets are still silent on the subject of sexual harassment allegations leveled at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo, who recently won an International Emmy Award for his daily television information sessions on the coronavirus, was an advocate for the Believe All Women and Me Too movements.

Former Cuomo aide Lindsay Boylan, who is currently running for Manhattan Borough President, first tweeted mention of the harassment on Sunday, and CNN, ABC and NBC have failed to report it.

According to Axios, Fox News has been the only major network to report on in the incident, noting it on Sunday evening, and giving it prominence of place and responding shortly after Boylan's tweets.

At the time of the alleged incidents, Boylan was working for Governor Cuomo from March 2015 until October 2018 as the deputy secretary for economic development and as a special advisor.

Many have approached Boylan for interviews, but she has refused, saying "To be clear: I have no interest in talking to journalists. I am about validating the experience of countless women and making sure abuse stops. My worst fear is that this continues. And as @FKAtwigs said yesterday, my second worst fear is having to talk about and relive this."

Cuomo responded to the allegations on Monday, saying "Yeah, I heard about the tweet, and what it said about comments that I had made."

"It's not true. Look, I fought for and I believe a woman has the right to come forward and express her opinion, and express issues and concerns that she has, but it's just not true."

These were his first public remarks, despite having spent several years claiming to Believe All Women, per the Me Too associated movement.

In a 2017 email with the subject line "NY Stands with #MeToo," Cuomo praised "women across the country" who "courageously speak out about facing sexual assault and harassment."

He told an NPR journalist that "We'll have policies in state government obviously, that affects state government, but I think you miss the point. When you say it's state government, you do a disservice to women, with all due respect, even though you're a woman. It's not government; it's society.

"It was Harvey Weinstein in the arts industry, it's comedians, it's politicians, it's chefs, right? It's systemic, it's societal, it’s not one person in one area," Cuomo said.