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!"
Maybe he could resume coverage of MH370.
CNN SUCKS...
They barely have any audience now. But in the end, based on the few viewers they still have, they are just preaching to the quire.
there. fixed it.
If there is no news, it’s time to make up some FAKE NEWS to retain viewers.
“Maybe he could resume coverage of MH370.”
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I used to watch that as if it was a comedy——a simulated cockpit-——and Richard Quest———good times. :-)
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Zuck should resign and let Trump direct the Trump coverage.
The what?
Zucker, you’d get a hell of a lot MORE viewers if you’d report the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
According to Neilsen, there aren’t many viewers left.
Well then they need a whole new business model.
Dang, Choir
CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage ‘the audience goes away’
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What audience?
CNN is like a crack addict.
They are addicted to Trump. They know they should quit Trump bashing. Cold turkey. Just stop and watch their ratings climb.
But they can’t. They won’t. It’ll kill them, but what can they do?
Their hate for Trump (and by extension all things good and normal) will kill them.
James O’Keefe Project Veritas got CNN people saying this a long time ago.
They recorded CNN officials saying RussiaGate is nothing but it’s great for ratings.
Can’t live with him. Can’t live without him.
How the hell would they know? They’ve never NOT covered/slandered Trump since he announced his intentions to run for POTUS.
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