Cuomo: “My Shtick is Having No Shtick”

The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz profiles Good Morning America anchor Chris Cuomo today, and looks at the “advocacy journalist”‘s rise in a field very different from his father and brother.

Cuomo’s father, Mario, is former governor of New York and his brother, Andrew, is the current New York attorney general. But his father said Chris was not interested in politics. “‘You and Andrew screwed that one up enough.’ That was his cute way of saying that the area was occupied by us,” said Mario.

Chris’ first correspondent job was at Fox News, where he was hired in 1998. “For Roger Ailes to put a Cuomo on Fox News Channel, that didn’t scream ‘immediate benefit,’” he said, although he says the FNC founder, “taught me everything.”

Now at ABC, he described the goal of his current role. “What frustrates people about these stories is you tell them what the problem is all the time, but you don’t hold anyone accountable,” he said. “I’m not good at faking the funk, as Robin likes to say. My shtick is having no shtick.”

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