Behind the Curtain, Cuomo Runs His Own P.R. Machine.

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Mr. Cuomo, who declined to comment for this article, has had an intense and at times fiery relationship with the news media ever since his days just out of law school, when he worked as an adviser to his father, former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.

His father was known as a serial off-the-record dialer, at times tracking reporters down in hotel rooms while they were away on assignment to talk about stories. As an aide to the former governor, Andrew Cuomo would sometimes make calls to reporters on his father’s behalf, often playing the bad cop.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/nyregion/13cuomo.html?hp