"A hush has settled in at the network" following Ross' New York Times opinion piece last Friday revealing that Cuomo grabbed her buttock during a going-away party in 2005, says Erik Wemple. Cuomo apologized at the time and issued the following statement: "As Shelley acknowledges, our interaction was not sexual in nature. It happened 16 years ago in a public setting when she was a top executive at ABC. I apologized to her then, and I meant it.” Wemple adds: "It looks as if CNN is going to leave the matter there. Thus far, the network’s PR operation has yet to issue a statement about how the company views the matter. On his Friday night program, Cuomo himself didn’t mention the story. Nor did host Brian Stelter on the Sunday media show Reliable Sources. (The Reliable Sources newsletter — a joint venture of Stelter and CNN’s Oliver Darcy — did cover the controversy.) So maybe Cuomo & Co. are going to ride this one out."
TOPICS: Chris Cuomo, CNN, Cable News, Sexual Misconduct