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!"
If airports stopped CNN on all the TV monitors, they’d be down to the National Organism of Womyn and pastors of liberal churches.
Psssst. Whether CNN covers Trump or not, the audience goes away. My videos of my daughter’s dance recital get more viewers.
What audience?
“It is true some of these folks (supporters) 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.
Then he’s asserting what PDJT has said - once he’s done being president CNN will go out of business.
Maybe they should try reporting on real world news and become relevant again because outside of those that wish to hate PDJT they have zero market.
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Definition of quire (Entry 2 of 2)
archaic spelling of choir
“Zucker said he wants CNN to be a home for both supporters and opponents of the president”
They may want a chance to brainwash supporters of the president, but their lies and propaganda are far too blatant, extreme, and laughable for anyone but the biggest Trump-haters to take seriously.
And how can this be their most profitable year, when their ratings are down so much? Maybe they really are on the DNC payroll just as they act like they are.
Give Trump his own daily show.it would be awesome.
Well, duh...…. When all you do all day is invent fake news, the only remaining audience is the choir.
Hey Zucker, if you don’t stop falsely accusing and demonizing Trump, we’re going to help you go away, and your network with you.
What audience? CNN loses out in the ratings vs Nickleodeon for goodness sake.
Yep - now if only Fox would pay attention to how many TVs turn away from them when Shep comes on...
That was hilarious.
Don Lemon talking about black holes.
These jokes write themselves sometimes.
Pretty sure that's a queer squire.
CNN has to improve quite a bit in order to suck.
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