CNN President Jeff Zucker: ‘We’re Not Going To Be Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi

The Daily Caller ^ | 20 May 2014 | Brendan Bordelon

[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.”

[eyedigress]

CNN is barely hanging onto hotel lobbies.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Good thing nobody is watching.

[Rodamala]

We are not going to be shamed into caring about or watching CNN’s alternative “News”.

[MarkL]

You can always hope for another plane crash.

The perfect example was CNN interupting their constant coverage of the the missing plane with a Breaking News Story of...

... The Titanic sinking 102 years ago!

That pretty much says everything you need to know about CNN's news coverage.

Mark

[MarkL]

No different than that booger eating moron, Eleanor Clift claiming that Steven's wasn't killed by terrorists. He died of smoke inhalation.

Sort of like saying that Daniel Pearl died of severe anemia (after terrorists slit this throat and sawed his head off!)

Mark

[Eric in the Ozarks]

CNN doesn’t matter.

[G Larry]

Mort, nobody watches you anymore anyway.

Are you still running hourly coverage the Flight 370 loss?

[hdbc]

Tall tree, short rope.

[GraceG]

So aliens could invade and if Obama said aliens don’t exist CNN wouldn’t cover it.....

OK....

[Lazamataz]

The Propaganda Ministry is going all-in.

They might even start telling people at the top of the broadcasts, "We are not news. We are an official government propaganda organ. We will lie to you and love it while we are doing it."

And then they will smile, and launch into the 'news'.

[Lazamataz]

When the balloon goes up, the media is the first target.

[Old Yeller]

Who watches CNN anyway, except those captive audiences in airports.

[krunkygirl]

Just my view: Rush ‘mostly’ retired a long time ago...

[publius911]

CNN President Jeff Zucker: ‘We’re Not Going To Be Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi

Cool!
It's your funeral!

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In 1996, Zucker married Caryn Stephanie Nathanson, then a supervisor for Saturday Night Live, with whom he has four children. His son, Andrew Zucker, briefly served on the advisory board of Democratic politician Cory Booker’s startup tech firm