Everybody's gotta eat (including me!), and getting a big chunk of money to be a "CNN contributor" or whatever they call it these days is a nice boost to any journalist's salary. Nobody wants to close off that potential, but that few of them are willing to say a word about Chris Cuomo's actions at the network...
I suppose there's much less harumphing about MEDIA ETHICS than there was back in the blogger ethics panel days, but, really, come on guys.