Cuomo Attacked N.Y.’s Largest Cable Company. Its Channels Ignored the News.

 By Shane Goldmacher

It would have seemed to be the perfect made-for-local-TV moment: a reporter’s hard-nosed questions about potential corruption allegations eliciting an angry rebuke from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Full coverage to follow, right?

But things quickly got complicated last Tuesday when Mr. Cuomo veered sharply away from a question about hundreds of thousands of dollars from possible straw donors, and began to attack the parent company of the veteran reporter who had asked it, Zack Fink of NY1.

“Speaking of fraud, Charter Spectrum has been executing fraud on the people of this state,” Mr. Cuomo said. He attacked the company for not building out as much broadband in rural communities as it had promised, and for television ads it was running to promote its record.

“You are defrauding the people of the state,” Mr. Cuomo told Mr. Fink. “That’s a fraud.”

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Source: The New York Times (via Empire Report)