how does the metoo thing prevent anyone from finding out about the nursing home thing though?

It does not prevent anything, just like the media don't prevent people from being informed. They simply provide alternatives consisting of misleading and false information, which consumers may choose to prefer.

It provides an opportunity to avoid learning about something about which people do not wish to learn, by providing an alternative to talk about and think about.

It flushes the nursing home thing from the media so that only people who really want to investigate that will do it.

CNN did not need any distraction to excuse themselves from talking about the nursing homes thing

This assumes that people at the CNN are as cynical as Cuomo himself, and are fine with killing people at nursing homes.

To some extent, the editor, who is a cynical sunovabitch, can say, "We're not gonna discuss nursing homes." But if there's nothing else to discuss, the rank and file employed at CNN may start to wonder what's up with the nursing homes.

So you distract the rank and file by making them report on something else involving Cuomo, instead.

how does the metoo thing prevent anyone from finding out about the nursing home thing though?

It does not prevent anything, just like the media don't prevent people from being informed. They simply provide alternatives consisting of misleading and false information, which consumers may choose to prefer.

It provides an opportunity to avoid learning about something about which people do not wish to learn, by providing an alternative to talk about and think about.

It flushes the nursing home thing from the media so that only people who really want to investigate that will do it.

Since most people do not want to learn such a thing, this dramatically reduces the number of people who will know.

CNN did not need any distraction to excuse themselves from talking about the nursing homes thing

This assumes that people at the CNN are as cynical as Cuomo himself, and are fine with killing people at nursing homes.

To some extent, the editor, who is a cynical sunovabitch, can say, "We're not gonna discuss nursing homes." But if there's nothing else to discuss, the rank and file employed at CNN may start to wonder what's up with the nursing homes.

So you distract the rank and file by making them report on something else involving Cuomo, instead.

how does the metoo thing prevent anyone from finding out about the nursing home thing though?

It does not prevent anything, just like the media don't prevent people from being informed. They simply provide alternatives consisting of misleading and false information, which consumers may choose to prefer.

It provides an opportunity to avoid learning about something about which people do not wish to learn, by providing an alternative to talk about and think about.

It flushes the nursing home thing from the media so that only people who really want to investigate that will do it.

Since most people do not want to learn such a thing, this dramatically reduces the number of people who will know.