Allison Gollust was fired for helping Andrew Cuomo select his own questions at CNN

Tuesday, CNN released a statement saying Allison Gollust had resigned from her job as executive VP or marketing. At the time, all CNN said was that an investigation had determined that Gollust, Jeff Zucker and Chris Cuomo had all violated company policy. Today, the NY Times published a story outlining exactly what got Gollust in trouble. It’s pretty amazing that anyone involved thought this was okay.On a Saturday in March 2020, as Covid-19 was invading the United States, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo went on CNN for a live interview. Among other topics, he was asked about a possible government-enforced quarantine of New York that had been floated by President Donald J. Trump…
Before the interview, Governor Cuomo had told a senior CNN executive, Allison Gollust, about subjects that he’d like to be asked about on air, according to several people familiar with the matter. Ms. Gollust, CNN’s longtime chief of communications and marketing and a former top aide of the governor, passed along the topics to CNN producers and then reported back to the governor.
“Done,” she wrote…
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