Posted on 01/19/2017 11:05:21 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Fake news outlet CNN’s top executive, Jeff Zucker, is threatening the incoming president of the United States Donald J. Trump.
“It’s just unfortunate that the most powerful person in the world is trying to delegitimize journalism and an organization that plays such a vital role in our democracy,” Zucker, CNN’s president, said in an interview with NY Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, when asked about how Trump denounced CNN as “fake news” at his press conference last week in New York City....-snip-
... Zucker specifically noted that Trump’s “adversarial relationship” with a network seen in foreign capitals is “a mistake.”
“I think the era of access journalism as we’ve known it is over,” Zucker replied to Sherman. “It doesn’t worry me that Donald Trump hasn’t done an interview with CNN in eight months. I think our credibility is higher than ever, and our viewership is higher than ever, and our reporting is as strong as ever. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Pull their broadcast and business licenses and sic the IRS on their advertisers.
Bt is Zucker’s claim true? I saw where Iran kicked al Jazeera out in 2015. Just wondering if there’s an alternative to CNN.
It’s no wonder the rest of the world is so disconnected from the real America.
How long has it been since you hopped through those foreign capitals?
Many on the left swear Anderson Cooper is an operative of the CIA on CNN to spread disinformation.
Someone forgot to take his irony pills
WaPo already is trying to protect Podesta and his spirit cooking. I just don’t trust the drive by media and debunking sites such as Snopes are the worst of all.
Just imagine the wailing unleashed if that same piece was about an Obama assassination...
What CNN gets away with is sickening.
Zucker should be VERY CAREFUL, With all the Info released by Wikileaks demonstrating the Vast Majority of CNN Programming during the election was engineered to Help Hillary (see COLLUSION)might just make all ALL the Revenue CNN Generated to be considered an ILLEGAL IN KIND POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION!
CNN <= Deep State propaganda organ
All CIA internal propaganda needs to be sanctioned by one of Trump’s first EXECUTIVE ORDERs....(tomorrow)
Hey Jeff, How’s that Katie show working out for you? And that Tabloid News Net you run, better than the Mirror? They have more readers that you have viewers.
CNN is hated in foreign capitals, they hurt America’s image. CNN can go to hll.
Jeff Sucker’s accusatory and defensive comments come at the worse time when CNN’s credibility is under more scrutiny than it has ever faced.
CNN is at the center of so many fake news controversies. Not sure if Ted Turner would have done a worse job had he held on to it.
The Secret Service needs to be making some more arrests!
Class E Felony
18 U.S. Code § 871 - Threats against President and successors to the Presidency
(a) Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(b) The terms “President-elect” and “Vice President-elect” as used in this section shall mean such persons as are the apparent successful candidates for the offices of President and Vice President, respectively, as ascertained from the results of the general elections held to determine the electors of President and Vice President in accordance with title 3, United States Code, sections 1 and 2. The phrase “other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President” as used in this section shall mean the person next in the order of succession to act as President in accordance with title 3, United States Code, sections 19 and 20.
That would leave John Kerry as next in line IIRC, according to the continuity of government laws.
Goes along with all the rest of the protesters - stop Trump, any way possible.
Everyone should flood Time Warner Executives with calls to Fire head of CNN Zucker and Wolfie Blitzer.
I find this offensive and chilling that CNN would do this. Especially since so many Democrats are not attending.
FCC should pull their license, and Time Warner should fire Zucker - no way this story ran without his approval - in fact he probably planned it.
I know of one “journalist” who had a rocket strapped to her back until she tried to take Trump down. Go ahead, Zucker, keep it up.
They need to deal with it. Fox News had to deal with it. Including Rosen who was personally targeted
... delegitimize ...
You’re exactly right. That word was on his mind because he is quite practiced at it. Projection.
“It’s just unfortunate that the most powerful person in the world is trying to delegitimize journalism...”
Journalism is great. It’s you that’s the problem, and you did it to yourself. Donald just acknowledged the obvious.
and an organization that plays such a vital role in our democracy,” Zucker, CNN’s president, said in an interview with NY Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, when asked about how Trump denounced CNN as “fake news” at his press conference last week in New York City....-snip-
They haven’t shown him CNN’s ratings yet? Must be a clip of Hitler finding out by now.
... Zucker specifically noted that Trump’s “adversarial relationship” with a network seen in foreign capitals is “a mistake.”
“.. I think our credibility is higher than ever, and our viewership is higher than ever, and our reporting is as strong as ever. ...”
That may be true in ways that Zucker can’t imagine.
We have this thing called the Inter-Net in the far-flung future of 2017. Maybe you've never heard of it, Mr. Zucker. We get news on demand, whenever we want it.
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