Posted on 07/05/2017 10:17:11 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
CNN President Jeff Zucker on Wednesday said President Trump is trying to bully the news network, but added that he won't let Trump "intimidate" his employees.
“My job is to remind everyone that they need to stay focused doing their job,” Zucker told The New York Times Wednesday. “He’s trying to bully us, and we’re not going to let him intimidate us. You can’t lose your confidence and let that change the way you conduct yourselves.”
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How in the hell Time Warner thought it a good idea to put a movie and entertainment producer in charge of a news division is beyond me. This is exactly what you get. The guy has absolutely NO idea how to manage a news team.
...and everyone seems so surprised.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that in Hollywood "there has been a single topic of discussion: How does Jeff Zucker keep rising and rising while the fortunes of NBC keep falling and falling? ...many in the Hollywood community have always regarded him as ...a network Napoleon who never bothered to learn about developing shows and managing talent." She explained that Zucker "is a master at managing up with bosses and calculating cost-per-hour benefits, but even though he made money on cable shows, he could not program the network to save his life."
Dowd also reported that an unnamed "honcho at another network" stated that "Zucker is a case study in the most destructive media executive ever to exist... You’d have to tell me who else has taken a once-great network and literally destroyed it."
Speaking of receiving...
How come the Counterfeit News Network always receives the airport television news contracts? Those probably make up the bulk of what is left of their viewing ratings!
Anyone know how these are awarded and when? How can this be changed?
Hey Hey Ho Ho CNN Has Got to Go...from the airports!
This guy is so lacking in self awareness it boggles the mind! OMG!
CNN bullies Trump and his supporters, lies about EVERYTHING, looks the other way when a Democrat should be investigated for anything, supports and encourages anti-America EVERYTHING, extorts/blackmails a Redditt poster and now has the AUDACITY to claim victimhood? Cry me a freakin’ river!
YOU started it, YOU stepped in it and now YOU will PAY for it! Good bye to your treasonous trash reporting. No way no how you will EVER get us to view your channel with anything except disdain. You’ve earned the scorn.
Just die, CNN
Let it go, Gene.
Pissiness will get you nowhere. It was just a comment.
It would be one thing if you were the only one doing what you have been doing. But like all major US news outlets, you are a member of the same illegal trust. A press can be independent, or a press can be associated with all or nearly all others. You are associated, which makes you one of many with whom President Trump has a legitimate beef.The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 is a one-page law, so any philosophical definition of illegitimate collusion is germane to your prosecution; one such is
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsYou are a member of the Associated Press, and consequently you continually participate in a virtual meeting with all other members of the AP. The AP has been conducting that meeting for more than a century and a half, and the result is just what Adam Smith would have predicted - a conspiracy against the public.What Adam Smith called “the public,” Thomas Paine called “society:”
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.You conspire with all the other journalists in the AP to do what is in the interests of all journalists, but which undermines society. Specifically, your focus on bad news produces coverage which - taken out of any “conservative” explanatory context - is negative toward society. That alone is bad enough, but knowing that your coverage of society is negative, you yet claim to be - actually to be, not merely to be trying to be - objective. Your coverage - all AP journalists’ coverage - of society is negative, and you claim that that negativity is “objective.” I put it to you that that is the very definition of cynicism.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
An interesting point about the quote of Paine above is that it makes plain that government is a negative commentary on society. Just like your coverage is a negative commentary on society. Any time you have difficulty grasping why traditional members of American society might consider you, and all journalists, to be socialists, just remember that your business model is cynicism toward society. And that while skepticism toward society justifies the existence of government, cynicism toward society is a rationalization to justify reducing and even eliminating freedom.
And we just do not hear much talk about freedom from journalists - or from any other socialists.
AWWW! PITY POOH!
Your second unsolicited complaint about comments that don’t concern you.
Hilarious!!! The godfather of the Corleone News Network,the Chief Thug and hit man himself, is wee-wee-weeing that he’s being bullied.
LMAO, LMAO, I can’t stop laughing.
Pussy
My gawd! Give it a rest!
What is wrong with you? It was a COMMENT on an anonymous board.
I mearly stated that you sounded like a verizon employee, I didn’t kill your dog!
Let. It. Go.
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