The New York Times(!) did plenty of pieces about this, AOC wanted an investigation, etc.
Same as how the NYT and similar outlets covered Cuomo’s sex scandals. Yes, he may have been a darling of 2020 (i remember “draft Cuomo”), but his star fell fast.
Liberal media doesn’t actually march in lock-step in defense of Democrats. Not sure where you get that idea. It hasn’t been true since at least the days of Weinstein, that Democratic donor you may have heard of (story broken by the New York Times and the New Yorker, for which they jointly won a Pulitzer Prize).
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/nyregion/cuomo-nursing-homes.amp.html
However many died in New York nursing homes though, I don’t think it holds a candle to how Republican governors failed to protect their populations in general.
Gov. Ivey though — (now) doing the right thing! The Republican Governor of Arkansas was also unusually candid about Covid’s risks.
Hence why they get my shout-outs here.