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CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
The Hill ^ | 11/01/18 | John Bowden

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!"


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; biasmeanslayoffs; cnn; enemedia; jeffzucker; media; msm; trysellingthetruth
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To: freedom1st
Yet CNN just left President Trump’s press conference on the illegals from the caravan.

shhhh

41 posted on 11/01/2018 2:03:13 PM PDT by timestax
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To: yesthatjallen

Trump is going to mention this in a speech. lol


42 posted on 11/01/2018 2:03:32 PM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: yesthatjallen
Jeff Zucker has to admit without Trump they can't retain viewers.

Its worse than that. He is admitting that the only viewers they have left now are Trump haters, and if they stop bashing Trump, they will lose the hate audience as well.


43 posted on 11/01/2018 2:04:48 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: yesthatjallen

The batshit angry left needs their daily fix


44 posted on 11/01/2018 2:05:55 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: timestax
GREAT album that featured the late great Eric Gale (guitar) and Steve Gadd (drums).


45 posted on 11/01/2018 2:06:28 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Doogle; yesthatjallen
"CNN SUCKS..."

It's for people too stupid to read People magazine.

46 posted on 11/01/2018 2:08:05 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Watch OAN. Real news. No spin.


47 posted on 11/01/2018 2:10:52 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Trump: America First. Obama: Quran First. Clintons: Money First)
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To: JoSixChip

What both people watching turn channels Sucker?


48 posted on 11/01/2018 2:13:46 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: yesthatjallen
So, Jeff Zucker admits CNN is a whore and nothing more. Stop the presses.
49 posted on 11/01/2018 2:14:19 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I only see CNN at airports and hotel lobbies. It seemed for about five months, every single time I saw their pathetic excuse for news, they were talking about the plane. Surely there’s been a plane crash they can concentrate on.


50 posted on 11/01/2018 2:17:48 PM PDT by cyclotic ( Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: yesthatjallen

CNN really needs to have constant 24 hour live coverage screen showing all of the Flight Schedules and listing departure times, delayed flights, etc.

They will then have a lock on frequent flyers and most libs.


51 posted on 11/01/2018 2:18:17 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: yesthatjallen

I realize different ‘leadership’ (or whatever one would call it) different but I seem to remember one of CNNs ‘stars’ PETER ARNETT in 1990 long about Desert Shield who basically admitted they would rather see American Troops ambushed than reveal certain info they had been given/getting from the Iraqis.

I passed that along in the same light that CNN reports most so called ‘news’....

Like the NYSlimes

All the news that FITZ.


52 posted on 11/01/2018 2:20:02 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""Politicians should wear uniforms-like Nascar dacketerivers-- to ID their Corporate Sponsors")
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To: yesthatjallen
CNN's ratings with wall-to-wall Trump obsession are right there with the Hallmark channel. If they stop ranting about Trump 24/7, their ratings will be right there with the local high school's A/V club broadcast.
53 posted on 11/01/2018 2:20:03 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: yesthatjallen

CNN typical viewers just want their daily dose of hate.


54 posted on 11/01/2018 2:20:09 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Mears

But, what about missing blond girls?


55 posted on 11/01/2018 2:20:53 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: yesthatjallen

[ CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage ‘the audience goes away’ ]

Both of them?

Plus 15 or so trapped at airports across the country?


56 posted on 11/01/2018 2:25:38 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: timestax
cnn-propaganda-tv666-1-copy
57 posted on 11/01/2018 2:25:59 PM PDT by timestax
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To: 1Old Pro

CNN knows that when people actually hear PTrump speak, he is amazing. They cannot allow the sheeple to hear him, only the out-of-context to the point of altering the meaning sound bites that they choose to hammer.


58 posted on 11/01/2018 2:27:47 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever!)
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To: dead

We’re spoiled. Whoever our next President is, he’s going to seem sooo boring.


I am old enough to remember a time when you almost never heard from or seen the President. It was not until Watergate that the media discovered rating gold by following the President. Democrats were heros and Republicans were zero.


59 posted on 11/01/2018 2:29:25 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Change CNN to TDN. Trump Derangement Network.

60 posted on 11/01/2018 2:35:02 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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