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

The Daily Caller ^ | 20 May 2014 | Brendan Bordelon

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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.”

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By January 2014, CNN’s ratings had plunged to a 20-year low, with an average of 78,000 viewers across the whole day and 98,000 viewers in prime time.

Zucker has been highly outspoken about his contempt for both the Fox News Channel and the Republican Party, having said, “the Republican Party is being run out of News Corp. headquarters, masquerading as a cable channel.”

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Zucker son quits Booker board

By BREANNA EDWARDS | 8/8/13 11:44 AM EDT
Andrew Zucker, the 15-year-old son of CNN President Jeff Zucker, has resigned from his post as “millennial adviser” at Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker’s Internet startup hours after it was revealed that he had been granted stock options for his role.

The teenager’s original involvement with the company was reported by The New York Times that same Wednesday, hours before his resignation.

The Times piece, however, mainly focused on the tech giants that were providing funding for Booker’s ambitious startup, an interest that Booker initially failed to mention in his financial disclosure, which was amended this week.

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By January 2014, CNN’s ratings had plunged to a 20-year low, with an average of 78,000 viewers across the whole day and 98,000 viewers in prime time. Zucker has been highly outspoken about his contempt for both the Fox News Channel and the Republican Party, having said, “the Republican Party is being run out of News Corp. headquarters, masquerading as a cable channel.”

We can appreciate liberal projection as Zucker is telling us exactly what his network and the demoncrat party are up to, lol

CGato

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How many former news channels is Zucker going to take down with him using his brilliant strategy? roflol! Keep it up Jeff!