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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So is CNN a news network, or something like that?
Oh! Oh - yes it was - I remember now.
Been so long since I watched it, I forgot!
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/Sarc
Still a liar
Funny I didn’t see them kicking the shit out of Hunter Biden & Co. in 2020. Just Trump for some reason.
The irony of lying in a statement claiming to be for the truth.
‘We were not anti-Trump, we were pro-truth’
YEAH, RIGHT!
Lying scum.
"CNN is not Anti-Bush, we are pro truth."
(John Kerry is an OK guy, the Swift vets who served alongside him are not)
"CNN is not pro-Obama, we are pro truth."
"CNN is not anti-Trump, we are pro truth."
"CNN is not pro-Biden, we are pro truth."
I was getting tired of CNN selling what I was not buying when Bush v. Gore was news.
My tagline has a 30 year history behind it.
Lying to the end I see.
The Zuck wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on his far left ass. What a jerk.
Yeah, like Zucker is pro hair.
Zucker wouldn’t know truth if it hit him in the face. He is just another mentally ill partisan liberal.
The Demented installed a demented fool.
His lawyer is telling him what to say.
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