Posted on 10/08/2022 12:17:58 PM PDT by lowbridge
Former CNN President Jeff Zucker addressed his time at the helm of the media company on Friday, saying that it was not “anti-Trump,” an assertion that is directly contrary to former President Trump’s attacks.
“As I said all the time, we were not anti-Trump. We were pro-truth,” he said of CNN’s coverage of the former president.
“If that came off as anti-Trump because he didn’t tell the truth, I’m not going to apologize for that.”
Trump routinely hit CNN, accusing the outlet of being “fake news.”
At one point, CNN correspondent Jim Acosta was barred from the White House after a confrontation with Trump over migrant caravans at the U.S. southern border during a press conference.
Zucker, who resigned from CNN in February after failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a senior executive at the company, said that he believes the media needs to take a critical stance toward both sides of the political aisle.
“You gotta hold both sides accountable. And kick the shit out of both sides,” he said.
However, the former executive remarked that he does not believe that holding both sides accountable means lending equal legitimacy to ideologies on the right and left of the political spectrum.
“Hold both sides accountable, but recognize that on certain issues like democracy and the future of democracy and whether the election was stolen, there’s not two sides,” said Zucker.
Zucker disagreed with former MSNBC President Phil Griffin’s approach to avoid platforming Trump because of his regular false claims.
“I think too if he’s speaking and lying when he’s speaking, or just passing along misinformation, he’s still the president of the United States. And I do think there’s a little bit of a responsibility to cover the president of the United States,” the former CNN chief said.
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He’s on a recording taken by a whistle-blower giving instructions on how to frame Trump.
Zucker wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him in the ass.
Psycho
Liar! CNN and the entire far-left MSM was, is, and will continue to be vehemently, relentlessly anti-Trump.
And of course, the RINO "Lincoln Project" was and is just as anti-Trump as the far-left MSM. The RINO-led Lincoln Project's stated goal when it was formed in 2019 by former and "current Republicans" (aka, RINOs) was to prevent and stop the hugely popular & hugely successful President Trump from getting reelected in 2020 and also to prevent and stop Republican political candidates (who ever said anything positive about President Trump), across the nation, from getting elected (or reelected) in the 2020 Democrat/RINO Stolen Election. (Look up The Lincoln Project on wikipedia.)
So, obviously, the RINO "Lincoln Project" was, and is, enthusiastically pro-Biden, pro-RINO, and pro-Democrat ........ I suggest you change your party affiliation to Democrat and be done with it. Sheesh!
Truth is what he says about others. Lies are what others say about him.
Lol. During the 2 years of the Russiagate hoax the reported 50 lies a day
CNN continuing to sink, all lifeboats are filled.
The glaring problems with Trump’s ‘no collusion’ argument
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/22/politics/trump-no-collusion/index.html
Why Trump and the GOP are both guilty of ongoing collusion
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/opinions/russia-hacking-midterm-election-opinion-ghitis/index.html
Lefties seem to think that “democracy” means not giving people a choice.
George Orwell’s classics, 1984 and Animal Farm have become the operational handbook for the Media, Progressives, and the DNC.
how regal it must be for these libs to grandstand shielded from any disagreement...
” Zucker on CNN coverage: ‘We were not anti-Trump, we were pro-truth’”
Grade “A” Bullshit
Zucker is a mere cut out walking a toght rope/
The Zuck hates Trump becasue he would allow The People to be free. Zuck wants them to lose freedom.
Big difference. Zuck does nor even care about America. Its just a market to him.
Look! His lips are moving!
Meaning what a liar.
“Hit both sides hard”???? HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!!!!!!!!!
Biden has been NOTHING but a bumbling, bungling, idiot (when he's not bursting a blood vessel-screaming about MAGA peeps), yet CNN treats him like he's Deity.
And every thing Zucker broadcast has turned out to be wrong.
pro truth?
so Trump Russian Collusion?
Biden sons laptop?
Masks are useless? Then masks are required?
and on and on
To put it in context: The leaders of the Democratic Party are the leaders BECAUSE they know, or understand, what the People want, or would want if they were not controlled by evil MAGA Republicans. Therefore - when simple arithmetical counting of votes produces the right result, it is legitimate - but when it produces a result contrary to the General Will, it is illegitimate and no measures to reverse or undermine the result are out of bounds.
This is the situation we find ourselves in, on issue after issue.
It is not going to end well.
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