The quire. You know, coconut hair.
Posted on 11/01/2018 1:42:35 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
CNN President Jeff Zucker said his network's audience would dwindle if its news programming shifted away from covering President Trump.
In an interview published in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Zucker said the reason why CNN spends much of the day reporting on Trump's day-to-day activities and his rhetoric stems from viewer demand.
“People say all the time, ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk about Trump, I’ve had too much Trump,’ ” Zucker told Vanity Fair. “And yet at the end of the day, all they want to do is talk about Trump."
"We’ve seen that anytime you break away from the Trump story and cover other events in this era, the audience goes away," he added. "So we know that, right now, Donald Trump dominates.”
Zucker said he wants CNN to be a home for both supporters and opponents of the president, despite harsh criticism of the news outlet from Trump and other Republicans.
“On MSNBC, you rarely hear from people who do support Trump," Zucker said. "We want to be home to both those points of view."
"It is true some of these folks are not very good with the facts, but that’s O.K. in the sense that it’s our job then to call them out," he added.
CNN is projected to report its most profitable year ever, a source familiar told Vanity Fair, though it lags behind both Fox News and MSNBC in average prime time viewership.
Trump frequently trashes CNN and its ratings, and has taken aim at Zucker in the past. The president wrote in August on Twitter that CNN's parent company should fire Zucker over CNN's ratings, which have improved significantly since Zucker took over.
"The hatred and extreme bias of me by @CNN has clouded their thinking and made them unable to function," Trump tweeted. "But actually, as I have always said, this has been going on for a long time. Little Jeff Z has done a terrible job, his ratings suck, & AT&T should fire him to save credibility!"
The quire. You know, coconut hair.
Yet CNN just left President Trump’s press conference on the illegals from the caravan.
Chris Plante mentioned a phone group-text channel he is part of for former and ‘some’ CNN employees, and the scuttlebutt is that CNN’s programming ‘style’ is largely due to Zucker’s explosive temper over being beaten to the punch by other networks, so they put anything on, even if it’s wrong.
Major speech. How can they break away and call themselves a news organization.
All 84 of them?!
No, your original word was more descriptive of their audience.
One twentieth of a ream.
Broadcast truthful news and see where it takes you, CNN.
We’re spoiled. Whoever our next President is, he’s going to seem sooo boring.
There’s plenty to cover about Trump without being so biased and negative.
Lots of good things happening.
There’s plenty to cover about Trump without being so biased and negative.
Lots of good things happening.
There’s plenty to cover about Trump without being so biased and negative.
Lots of good things happening.
There’s plenty to cover about Trump without being so biased and negative.
Lots of good things happening.
Maybe they should try something new,,,the TRUTH.
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