Posted on 10/15/2019 12:08:49 PM PDT by Enlightened1
CNN President Jeff Zucker has insisted the cable news network has to maximally focus on pushing the story of Democrats trying to impeach President Donald Trump, despite objections by staffers that the push is harming the organization’s journalistic integrity, according to undercover recordings.
“Impeachment is the story,” Zucker said during a recent 9 a.m. rundown call, according to one of the recordings, which were released on Oct. 14 by investigative journalism nonprofit Project Veritas. “You know, I know we’re going to feel a tendency to think we’re doing too much, but this is the story.”
At least some of the recordings were provided by Cary Poarch, a satellite uplink technician who works as a contractor at CNN’s Washington bureau.
“I just want them to own where they’re at,” he said of CNN. “Like, hey, if we lean left, cool, let’s just say we lean left, if we lean right, let it be known.”
CNN didn’t respond to multiple requests by The Epoch Times for comment.
Several CNN employees told Poarch or other undercover reporters about their dissatisfaction with Zucker’s approach.
“There’s just nothing we can do if Zucker wants impeachment every single day to be the top story,” said Christian Sierra, media coordinator at CNN, in one of the recordings.
Sierra said he “hate[ed] how everything is like all Trump all the time now.
“Everyone at the network complains about it,” he said. “They hate covering Trump every day.”
Mike Brevna, CNN floor manager, expressed a similar sentiment in another recording.
“It’s the Trump Network, dog. It’s like, it’s everything is all Trump. They not even thinking about, they not even thinking about anybody else,” he said. “They sold themselves to the devil. It’s, it’s sad. Because there’s so much news going on out there, but
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Did this REALLY come out right after the President’s Zucker punch?! If so... oh, the timing! rotfl
“Trump did this”. “Trump said that”. Now show a picture of him looking darkly at the camera, and say “Trump wants to do this”, and “Trump told someone to do that”. It’s like listening to some bitter little person complaining about someone they’re secretly jealous of.
“...harming the organization’s journalistic integrity”
I think that’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. CNN’s “journalistic integrity”? Isn’t that rather like a street hooker’s virtuous reputation?
It is really quite remarkable to look at CNN’s home page and still have no clue what the actual news of the day is.
The demise of a network....
I saw the first video and I don’t see anything worthy enough from the dissenters to have included it and destroyed their careers/lives.
If someone is all on board with zuck, great bury them.
But where I come from destroying someone for no good reason except to fill time on what right now seems like NOTHING WE DIDNT KNOW makes someone a coward and a faggot.
Go ahead attack. I don’t give a ####.
ZNN
Zucker News Network
I actually saw a TV show that had the news on and the logo said ZNN, Chicago Fire maybe. Wonder if it’s an inside joke among TV people in the know
Special.
JMO, YMMV
“They sold themselves to the devil. It’s, it’s sad.”
Boy, ain’t that the truth!
It's calling her a "two bit hooker", and her hitting you with a bag of quarters...
Every news feed, cable, msm, internet is all anti-Trump all the time.
Their hatred must be overwhelming - do they think abandoning all journalistic ethics and accuracy is worth it? I mean, Trump is going to win again so all their lies are for naught.
Pull up the Microsoft News feed on your computer, out of 47 stories, 43 are anti-Trump, it's ridiculous.
Haha. So true! Well said.
No. Clown News Network has destroyed lives by their lies.
They need to be destroyed. PV is doing the Lord’s work.
It’s J.A.G. and any of the NCIS shows. They’ve had “ZNN” as part of their shows since the Clinton years.
Ah, NCIS yup
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