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NY’s Cuomo to receive International Emmy for virus briefings

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to soon receive an International Emmy award for his once-daily televised briefings on the coronavirus pandemic that killed tens of thousands of New Yorkers this spring.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, whose members include media and entertainment figures from over 60 countries and 500 companies, announced Friday it plans to present the award to the Democratic governor in a live-streamed show Monday.

International Academy President & CEO Bruce L. Paisner said Cuomo is being honored with the academy’s Founders Award for using his briefings to inform and calm the public. Previous recipients include former Vice President Al Gore, Oprah Winfrey, and director Steven Spielberg.

“The governor’s 111 daily briefings worked so well because he effectively created television shows, with characters, plot lines, and stories of success and failure,” he said. “People around the world tuned in to find out what was going on, and New York tough became a symbol of the determination to fight back.”

Cuomo used his more than 100 Powerpoint-driven slideshows and his sometimes emotional, sometimes acerbic style to provide daily updates and detail his administration’s efforts to shutter the economy and avoid predictions of as many as 100,000 people hospitalized at once.

The pandemic peaked in early-to-mid April, when over 18,000 people were hospitalized at once and hospitals and nursing homes reported as many as 800 deaths in one day.

New York has reported at least 34,187 deaths of people due to COVID-19, according to data from John Hopkins University & Medicine. And at least 6,600 residents have died in nursing homes, according to state data, which doesn’t state how many nursing home residents died in hospitals.

The number of daily infections, hospitalizations and deaths plummeted as Cuomo slowly reopened the state’s economy this summer, when about 1% of tests were coming up positive.

New York is now seeing far fewer deaths and hospitalizations than this spring. Still, the state’s daily average of COVID-19 cases over the past seven days has more than doubled in two weeks as cases surge nationwide.

https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-international-emmmy-cf78433a73757926aed4376c13ec7372

I think the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are doing this to urk GOPers. The seething hate for Cuomo on the right is only outweighed by the distrust of him from the far left. I couldn't care less about this, but smacking both fringes in the face at the same time is quite a feat. This is how moderates roll, and the entertainment industry is full of them.

Hard pass on this.

He was a problem during the protests.

I thought he spoke the truth at the time. Not sure why it deserves an Emmy but whatever.

Dude did a book tour for a book that was thrown together about his covid "leadership"

Dude was on CNN almost every day because his brother has a show and he sat there as his brother talked about how great he was.

Dude is getting an emmy for doing his best impersonation of Baghdad Bob in his press conferences..

Dude has never once owned up to the heinous mistakes he and his team made early on in the pandemic..

And even after all of these months of "NY Success" and the rest of the country doing so horribly, NY is STILL 13,000 deaths ahead of the next closest state.

I don't "get it."
In the same way I didn't "get" 44's Nobel* prize.


I don't buy their books. On only rare occasions, will I check one out from the local library- and even then, I'm never in any hurry to do so.

I didn't/won't buy tix to their book tours/lectures.


These ppl already occupy too much of My Daily Space, as is. Why would I seek out more exposure?

Dude should be arrested as a serial killer. Instead the woke crowd want to give him a Emmy.

Eh, just shows that Emmy's aren't an indication of anything. Another useless award that has no real value or indication of talent, ability or skills. Just a small notch above being able to claim a Guinness Book record.

.trump will have no problem getting into the G book ....Most deaths under a 2020 world leader’s watch during the COVID-19 pandemic. Well done Donny.