Andrew Cuomo’s Bad Press

Since December, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, has not taken an in-person question from a reporter. Amid compounding crises, Cuomo––who was hailed by much of the national press at the height of New York’s COVID outbreak––has hidden from journalists, under the guise of health and safety protocols. (No matter that he held briefings last spring, when COVID peaked in New York, with reporters allowed inside.) His recent press conferences have been stacked, instead, with...