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CNN's President Says It Was A Mistake To Air So Many Trump Rallies And "Let Them Run"
BuzzFeed ^ | October 14, 2016 | Mary Ann Georgantopoulos

Posted on 10/15/2016 2:08:09 PM PDT by Zakeet

CNN President Jeff Zucker on Friday said it was a "mistake" to air so many Trump rallies "and let them run" in 2015, giving the candidate an unfettered platform to call Mexicans rapists, support bans on Muslims from entering the US, and overall grow his base, which includes white nationalists.

"If we made any mistake last year, it's that we probably did put on too many of his campaign rallies in those early months and let them run," Zucker said at a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School. "Listen, because you never knew what he would say, there was an attraction to put those on air."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; mediabias; msm; trump; trump2016
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To: Zakeet

Translation:

We took the wrong approach to deceiving and manipulating the electorate.


61 posted on 10/15/2016 3:08:00 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Zakeet

Zucker wasn’t crying when the GOP primary debates and Trump rallies were helping CNN beat Fox in the ratings.

Hey Zucker, go Zuck yourself!


62 posted on 10/15/2016 3:10:49 PM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Folks...take note...it’s important!!! The Trump political rallies get larger every day. The Clinton/Obama hate Trump media is mocked and degraded with every passing minute. What a stupid, dumb, bunch of bozos!!! You idiots are not convincing the American voters...period!!! Hillary Clinton is a criminal...end of story!!!


63 posted on 10/15/2016 3:11:10 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Bob

Now that you mention it, there does seem to be a paucity of coverage of HRC’s many campaign stump speeches, and the overwhelming crowds enthusiastically supporting her. /s


64 posted on 10/15/2016 3:14:24 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Dick Bachert

Well said.

Communists love money. They love it so much that they want it all for themselves.

The communist leaders are almost always from (to use their hateful terminology) upper-middle-class, bourgeois households.

They know nothing of the real struggles of the real (so-called) peasant-class proletariat. It is all nihilistic theory they promulgate.

Marx, like Obama, was a contemptible failure who neither produced nor accomplished anything except destructive propaganda.


65 posted on 10/15/2016 3:15:06 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: Zakeet

Well..... he can just broadcast all the empty Hillary venues, only occupied by a local high school on a field trip....

Or hijacking a concert.

Or a cgi rally.


66 posted on 10/15/2016 3:15:24 PM PDT by Daniel Ramsey
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To: Zakeet
What a moron. We just watched a Trump rally yesterday and never turned on the TV. In fact, we've watched dozens of his rallies and never once turned on CNN.

The old school TV media still haven't figured out they no longer control the news.☺

67 posted on 10/15/2016 3:17:41 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Zakeet

CNN did it for the ratings and the money.

Are they trying to pretend they did it for free speech?

What a load of double talk.


68 posted on 10/15/2016 3:23:33 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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To: Zakeet

I well recall that we all thought it hysterical that the MSM had to cover the wild man BECAUSE he was a wild man and that this was getting the message out. IIRC more than one free per opined that theyd realize their mistake too late.


69 posted on 10/15/2016 3:27:11 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Lexington Green

*** ““The most insidious power that the media has, is the power to ignore.” ***

They sure know how to ignore Wikileaks


70 posted on 10/15/2016 3:29:33 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Don Corleone

CNN - Chicken Noodle Network


71 posted on 10/15/2016 3:29:55 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Freedom or Slavery)
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To: Zakeet

Their real problem is Clinton won’t hardly campaign for herself and Donald is actually getting out shaking hands, everyday.


72 posted on 10/15/2016 3:35:11 PM PDT by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: Zakeet

Dyck Zucker also said.

We cant understand why our ratings Zuck so bad.


73 posted on 10/15/2016 3:45:20 PM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: hal ogen

Every restaurant we go into and they are shown Corrupt Noos Network we ask for manager to change the channel.

You should too!


74 posted on 10/15/2016 3:52:57 PM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: buwaya

Trump increased ratings, which then affects how much money the network can charge for commercials. The higher the ratings, the higher the revenue.


75 posted on 10/15/2016 3:58:34 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Gasshog

We do. if they don’t, we go somewhere else never to return.


76 posted on 10/15/2016 3:58:53 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Zakeet

It was actually part to the democrat plan. They figured that Trump would hang himself and destroy the republican party. Only the media didn’t realize that Trump was just saying what the American people were thinking.


77 posted on 10/15/2016 4:06:09 PM PDT by Revel
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To: kabar

They dont really live off commercials based on ratings.
They are not economically viable in themselves. None of the news media are, their ratings dont justify their continued existence. Its the same with the major newspapers. If they had to live on what advertising and cable fees justified by actual viewership they would have gone out of business years ago.

At this point they live on subsidies from their owners (or advertising really meant as a subsidy) for political purposes.
They are political assets, thats their reason to exist.

They TALK like they mean it about the old obsolete media business, ratings and shares and ad revenue, but behind the facade thats no longer the point.


78 posted on 10/15/2016 4:09:29 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: DiogenesLamp

*** “It’s time to destroy the “speech police.” ***

And Political Correctness


79 posted on 10/15/2016 4:12:15 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
If this is true, that man and all of the rest who think like he does need to be in prison...literally. The guys running this country are completely corrupt.

What would Jeff Zucker say to his own face with that caption on it going out on national TV?

"Hate crime?" "Climate of intolerance?"

SJWs always lie.

SJWs always double down.

SJWs always project.

80 posted on 10/15/2016 4:28:51 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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