Chris Cuomo Says Justin Timberlake DWI Shows Media's Negativity Obsession
Chris Cuomo's calling out the media for obsessing over Justin Timberlake's DWI arrest ... saying it's part of our love of negativity ... in this case, taking a big star down.
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00:00I know you live in the area where Justin got arrested.
00:06So make the case that the media should not be covering this.
00:11Look, you can't tell them not to cover it,
00:13but I think it's the degree, the duration, the depth.
00:16And to be very clear, I live outside Sag Harbor
00:20in New York where this is, good police force.
00:24They do the job well, we love them here.
00:27Justin Timberlake is not the first person
00:30to get pulled over for this and we don't cover DUIs.
00:33So why with Justin Timberlake?
00:35Because he's a celebrity.
00:36Okay, I get it.
00:37But why was my town flooded with media?
00:41Did he hit somebody?
00:43Did he almost hit somebody?
00:44No, no.
00:45Do we even know that he did it?
00:46No.
00:47Is it weird that he didn't take the breathalyzer?
00:50No.
00:51He is getting a lot of attention
00:54and I believe there's bad reason for it.
00:56I believe that it's evidence of our addiction to grievance
01:02and our addiction to negativity.
01:04And we don't really care about DUI.
01:07Of course it matters.
01:08Of course you sit and drink and drive.
01:09Everybody knows that.
01:10You don't need Justin Timberlake to admit it.
01:12But I just felt it was a reflection of that.
01:15And then I saw it in the echo of Travis Scott's coverage,
01:17which is nothing like Timberlake's.
01:19And Travis Scott is a big deal.
01:21You could argue he's an even bigger deal.
01:23If I understand what you're saying
01:25is that we focused way more attention
01:28on Justin than Travis.
01:31They did very different things
01:32because I think getting behind the wheel
01:34is fundamentally different.
01:36100%, but my pushback would be,
01:39I don't think that the difference is because
01:42DUI is taken so seriously by the media.
01:46I don't believe that.
01:48I don't think we see any proof of that.
01:49I don't think, I think it's just the gotcha.
01:52And I think Justin Timberlake is somebody
01:55where there's more, if not appetite,
01:59there's more upside to taking him down.
02:02What I don't think this is, is a race play.
02:04That's not what I'm saying.
02:06I'm saying that Travis Scott,
02:07it's not new to see him in controversy.
02:11We have to start policing our inclinations better.
02:14I think when you look around at what's going on right now,
02:17it's all related.
02:19This addiction to grievance, how divided we are,
02:22our battle to the bottom in politics,
02:25everything about who is worse.
02:27And I just think you got to check yourself everywhere.
02:29You know, it's kind of like
02:31when you're trying to lose weight,
02:33you have to kind of look at your habits everywhere
02:37to see where you're off track.
02:39And I believe that how we cover celebrities
02:42is part of basically just a culture
02:46of attacking each other.