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CNN President: We Won’t Be ‘Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi
The Blaze ^ | May. 20, 2014 | Zach Noble

Posted on 05/20/2014 2:50:30 PM PDT by kingattax

Climate change and the missing Malaysian flight are important to CNN. The Obama administration’s continued evasion of serious investigation into the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, not so much.

At least that’s what Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, told a New York Times reporter at the Deadline Club’s annual awards dinner Monday night.

“We’re not going to be shamed into [Benghazi coverage] by others who have political beliefs that want to try to have temper tantrums to shame other news organizations into covering something,” Zucker said. “If it’s of real news value, we’ll cover it.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benrhodes; cnn; deadlineclub; demagogicparty; jaycarney; jeffzucker; libya; malaysia; memebuilding; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; susanrice
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To: kingattax
“We’re not going to be shamed into [Benghazi coverage] by others who have political beliefs that want to try to have temper tantrums to shame other news organizations into covering something,” Zucker said. “If it’s of real news value, we’ll cover it.”

Perhaps...like the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 into a black hole, as postulated by your laughable excuse for a news anchor, Don Lemon? Real news value like that, Jeff?

I got yer "real news value" hangin' right heah, Jeffy. Come get it, sweetheart. (Heh, heh...heh, heh...)
41 posted on 05/20/2014 3:12:14 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: kingattax
CNN President: We Won't Be Shamed Into Covering Benghazi Practicing Journalism
42 posted on 05/20/2014 3:12:15 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: patriotspride

Out of the 250,000 that watch that network I doubt there will be any pressure.


43 posted on 05/20/2014 3:12:53 PM PDT by DocJhn
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To: kingattax

They all stonewalled the Clinton/waterwater/Foster hearings UNTIL Haley Barbour was subpoenaed to testify. Then they covered it. What a disgrace.


44 posted on 05/20/2014 3:14:15 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: kingattax

CNN is only interested in covering non-news about the missing plane and ranting over Sterling. Refusal to cover Benghazi shows they are not a news station.


45 posted on 05/20/2014 3:14:35 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: kingattax

...and that’s why they’re dead last in the ratings...


46 posted on 05/20/2014 3:14:43 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: kingattax
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47 posted on 05/20/2014 3:14:44 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: DocJhn; All

how about we contact CNN sponsors and assure them that unless CNN content is about things that are really important to Americans like Benghazi, don’t expect to get any of our coins


48 posted on 05/20/2014 3:16:18 PM PDT by kingattax (America needs more real Americans.)
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To: Mears

Oops,grammatical error in post #36.

“They’re” is correct.

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49 posted on 05/20/2014 3:17:52 PM PDT by Mears
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To: kingattax

CNN wasn’t shamed into being Saddam’s sock puppet during the first Gulf War from Baghdad either.


50 posted on 05/20/2014 3:18:14 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

This photo should include obama dancing the night away with the celebrities at the party he went to the next day and every day there after.


51 posted on 05/20/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: kingattax

Zucker knows the stakes. Gowdy gets to the bottom of this, it’s goodbye Hillary 2016, and any other DUmb-D running for pRes. Zucker doesn’t want to show the world just how incompetent the boobs that are Obama and Hillary.


52 posted on 05/20/2014 3:19:16 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: kingattax

One way to get them to cover it is to release tracking information that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 landed in Benghazi.


53 posted on 05/20/2014 3:20:44 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: kingattax

Presstitutes being presstitutes.


54 posted on 05/20/2014 3:21:01 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: kingattax
Moron CNN's deceit

.. and we're not shamed by our Tailwind fiasco.. because we're

CNN! the most busted news source

55 posted on 05/20/2014 3:21:55 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Tzimisce

Makes ya wonder why they don’t care. It is like they are on some sort of welfare or something.


56 posted on 05/20/2014 3:24:06 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: kingattax

These people are from another planet. No wonder they have no shame, and no brains.


57 posted on 05/20/2014 3:24:30 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: kingattax

I really have no interest in watching CNN. I actually only read News off the net. I don’t need a Bubble Head giving slant on a story! Philly 10 all the reporters on any story speak with such urgency that if the grass is growing the sky will fall at any moment! The weather now advocates global warming. It’s very Sad!


58 posted on 05/20/2014 3:26:30 PM PDT by DocJhn
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To: kingattax

Did he really say something that stupid?


59 posted on 05/20/2014 3:28:37 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

saying stupid things - a CNN trademark


60 posted on 05/20/2014 3:29:40 PM PDT by kingattax (America needs more real Americans.)
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