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CNN President Jeff Zucker: ‘We’re Not Going To Be Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi
The Daily Caller ^ | 20 May 2014 | Brendan Bordelon

Posted on 05/20/2014 4:32:53 PM PDT by mandaladon

CNN President Jeff Zucker declared his network would “not going to be shamed” into covering Benghazi and other stories without “real news value” at an awards dinner Monday.

Capital New York reports that Zucker explained CNN’s post-plane plans during an interview at the Deadline Club’s annual dinner on Monday night.

“I don’t think there’s any question about our commitment to breaking news, as evidenced by all the questions about the plane,” Zucker told The New York Times’ Bill Carter (RELATED: The five most ridiculous aspects of CNN’s missing Malaysian flight coverage).

“So we’re still there whenever that happens,” he continued, “but we’re going to supplement that with some different kind of storytelling.”

What kind of stories? “Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about,” he explained — though he lamented the fact that “when we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience’s part.”

But there are some stories Zucker is loathe to touch, like the House select committee on Benghazi scandal.

“We’re not going to be shamed into it by others who have political beliefs that want to try to have temper tantrums to shame other news organizations into covering something,” he explained, taking a not-so-subtle shot at the Republican Party. “If it’s of real news value, we’ll cover it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benrhodes; bias; billcarter; cnn; demagogicparty; jaycarney; jeffzucker; libya; malaysia; mediabias; memebuilding; msm; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; susanrice
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Loser!
1 posted on 05/20/2014 4:32:53 PM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

um ok...

i guess news is only what YOU think it is


2 posted on 05/20/2014 4:33:42 PM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period. PALIN/CRUZ 2016)
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To: mandaladon
Zucker, who is famous for his inept tenure as president of NBC, moved to CNN in January 2013 and almost immediately drove its U.S. operation into the ground, with the original cable news network suffering its worst prime time ratings in twenty years......................In other words a LOSER
3 posted on 05/20/2014 4:34:40 PM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: mandaladon
This is satire, right?

Please tell me it's satire.

Please!

4 posted on 05/20/2014 4:35:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: mandaladon
CNN President Jeff Zucker: ‘We’re Not Going To Be Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi

CNN has no shame, check. Color me shocked.

5 posted on 05/20/2014 4:36:19 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: mandaladon
Earlier thread, but links to a story in The Blaze. Ninety comments at present.
6 posted on 05/20/2014 4:36:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: mandaladon

This is too funny. Nobody is watching you, who will know ?


7 posted on 05/20/2014 4:36:58 PM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: Mr. K

“All the news that’s fit to twist, slant, or spike!”


8 posted on 05/20/2014 4:37:03 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: mandaladon

REMEMBER KIDDIES!!!!

This is the same guy that WROTE Obama’s Styrofoam columns speech, while also Prez of NBC Entertainment!

He is so far in the tank for Dems that he would have to take off his tie to take a dump.


9 posted on 05/20/2014 4:37:34 PM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: Mr. K

Liberals cannot be shamed—we know that. Exhibit A—Bill Clinton. Go away Zucker—you’re a disgrace to the First Amendment.


10 posted on 05/20/2014 4:37:41 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: mandaladon

stick with those instincts, Zucker....they’ve certainly have served you well (snark)


11 posted on 05/20/2014 4:37:54 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: mandaladon

Hey, CNN, nice job covering the Chinese uprising of 1989. Since then, well... You can always hope for another plane crash.


12 posted on 05/20/2014 4:38:17 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: mandaladon

I would really love to see Rush put a group together and take over CNN.


13 posted on 05/20/2014 4:38:41 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: mandaladon

No one cares ,no one watches CNN


14 posted on 05/20/2014 4:38:41 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: mandaladon
Question for Mister Zucker...

Do you and/or does your organization have one or more "minders"?

I don't know, but I am quite curious.

.

15 posted on 05/20/2014 4:40:29 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: mandaladon

So Great Jeff, Lessee, you have what 250k viewers in Prime Time on a good night, and you are admitting censorship over the murder of four Americans due to a terror attack and gun running to the Islamists. Great call Dufus. How is the Katie show going?


16 posted on 05/20/2014 4:40:45 PM PDT by Shady (We will not comply. We are Free, We Are AMERICANS!)
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To: Still Thinking

I think what Zucker actually said was “We’re not going to be shamed into covering the news”.

CNN - Continually No News, all the time

CNN - Classical News Nonsense


17 posted on 05/20/2014 4:40:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Still Thinking
OBAMA, HILLARY, BENGHAZI, LIARS

http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2012/11/obama-benghazi-liar.html

Military men were relieved of command for wanting to save American lives in Libya, yet Obama claimed he did everything he could to save those Americans. . . He Lied


18 posted on 05/20/2014 4:41:10 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: mandaladon
“I don’t think there’s any question about our commitment to breaking news getting Hillary Clinton elected president in 2016.....

There, Fixed it.

19 posted on 05/20/2014 4:41:10 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: mandaladon

Well, I declare! This is NOT SATIRE. He actually said this as a corporate policy statement. Confirming, once again, that CNN is but one News Groups in the Paid Liars organization, operated directly from Valerie Garrett’s double secret, private laptop.


20 posted on 05/20/2014 4:42:41 PM PDT by lee martell
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