Analysis: Everyone is rooting for Chris Cuomo. But by continuing to anchor his show through a positive Covid-19 test, he is modeling a dangerous attitude about the virtues of working through illness.
within days or weeks of delivering a baby. When then-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer set up a nursery beside her office in 2013—and, not long afterward, rescinded the company’s work-from-home policies—she wasn’t just demonstrating the broad inequities in access to child care in America. She was sending her staff, and the entire tech world, a not-so-subtle message about how she measured dedication to the company.
In the world of top-level TV anchordom, taking physical risks for the sake of the story has become an accepted virtue. Standing waist-deep in water during a hurricane is practically a CNN trope. And it’s true that a journalist’s job is often to bear witness when others can’t; we all benefit from investigative reporters who persist in the face of personal threats, and war correspondents who bravely put themselves in harm’s way.
“Chris Cuomo, with all due respect, is not the only one who can deliver the news,” says Bravo, who is a strategic advisor to Family Values @ Work, a network of state coalitions fighting for paid leave laws. In fact, she says, a truly sensible attitude toward sick leave would create, for every worker, the redundancies that Cuomo is lucky enough to have at his own company: paid time off and a bench full of skilled players who can fill in until he gets better.
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