It’s on between CNN and Fox News. After Ralph Peters, a retired Army officer, quit as a contributor last week, CNN President Jeff Zucker joined in with some harsh comments. News broke Tuesday that Peters had written in an email to colleagues at Fox: “In my view, Fox has degenerated from proving a legitimate and […]
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Conservatives are planning to protest CNN’s “blackmail, doxxing and #CollusionDelusion” outside the network’s headquarters on Saturday in Atlanta. The Media Equality Project (MEP) will be joined by their volunteer leaders, local political activists and Atlanta talk show host Bryan Crabtree according to a press release. Join us in a protest @CNN in Atlanta this Saturday against […]
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In an interview with The New York Times on Wednesday, CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker said that President Trump is trying to bully the cable news network and that he wasn’t going to let Trump intimidate his employees. “My job is to remind everyone that they need to stay focused doing their job. He’s trying […]
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CNN announced late yesterday that three employees have resigned based on their involvement in a now retracted story on Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci’s ties to a Russian investment fund. Thomas Frank, who reported the story; Eric Lichtblau, who recently joined CNN from The New York Times and edited the piece; and Lex Haris, the executive editor […]
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In an interview with The Wrap, CNN anchor Jake Tapper said, “the media is in a rough place right now,” and added that they have a lot of work to do to regain the public’s trust after completely misreading the election: “Obviously there was a lot of misreading of information. I don’t know one poll […]
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CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker is the latest media executive to chime in on how his company will cover the Trump administration, telling attendees at a dinner on Tuesday for the Committee to Protect Journalists that they plan on holding the new administration’s “feet to the fire,” according to CNN’s Brian Stelter: “We will hold the […]
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Donna Brazile, the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee and one time CNN contributor, took a shot at the cable news network for “ripping me a new one,” instead of allowing her to defend herself after WikiLeaks emails surfaced that showed that she leaked town hall and debate questions to the Clinton campaign. Brazile’s […]
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Don and Brian discuss the FBI reopening the Clinton email investigation, CNN’s firing of Donna Brazile, the tightening presidential polls, early voting, Rachel Dolezal’s upcoming memoir and more. Here is the iTunes link. Below is SoundCloud: Here is the YouTube recording:
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Jeff Zucker, CNN’s CEO, admitted as much: The cable news mogul’s remarks appeared in a Wall Street Journal report detailing the ratings boom that CNN has enjoyed since the start of 2016 presidential election. Zucker mused that there is much more to be gained by playing it down the middle with news coverage, as opposed […]
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Former Meet the Press moderator David Gregory has been hired by CNN as a political analyst, as the network prepares for the 2016 presidential campaign. Gregory, who was unceremoniously dumped as Meet the Press moderator in 2014 after the show’s ratings tanked, has since written a book about faith, and recently appeared on CNN and […]
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7/20/2017 - Conservatives Plan Protest Against Fake News at CNN Headquarters
7/6/2017 - CNN President Jeff Zucker: We Won’t Let Trump Intimidate Us
6/27/2017 - Three CNN Employees Resign Over Retracted Story on Trump Advisor’s Russia Ties
1/25/2017 - CNN’s Tapper: “The Media Is in a Rough Place Right Now” After Blowing the Election
11/24/2016 - CNN President Zucker: We’ll Hold Trump Administration’s “Feet to the Fire”
11/16/2016 - Donna Brazile Blasts CNN for “Ripping Her a New One” in Debate-Question Leak Scandal
11/3/2016 - Bias Buzz Podcast: Pre-Election Day Primer
5/3/2016 - CNN CEO: “Legitimate Criticism” that CNN was Traditionally Liberal
3/28/2016 - Former Meet the Press Moderator David Gregory Joins CNN
11/20/2015 - CNN Reporter Suspended for Tweet on Syrian Refugees
6/10/2015 - CNN President Jeff Zucker Thinks MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Should Start Getting his “Resume Ready”
2/19/2015 - Joe Scarborough Bristles at Question of “Morning Joe’s” Low Ratings
2/18/2015 - CNN Prez Jeff Zucker: “We’d be Thrilled to Have Fox’s Numbers”
1/30/2015 - CNN’s Full Page Ad Teasing Morning Joe Irks Scarborough
1/16/2015 - CNN President Jeff Zucker Consulted Muslim Employees Over Charlie Hebdo
1/9/2015 - Fox News’ Roger Ailes Praises Staff—Urges Them to Maintain Commitment
1/2/2015 - No Unlucky Number as Fox News Remains Top Cable News Network for 13th Consecutive Year
12/23/2014 - CNN President Jeff Zucker Sends Upbeat Email to Staff—Glosses Over Problems
10/28/2014 - Jeff Zucker is “Open” to Airing Scripted Movies on CNN
10/16/2014 - CNN Cancels Struggling Crossfire
10/14/2014 - MSNBC President Phil Griffin Blames Washington Dysfunction for Low Ratings
10/7/2014 - CNN Cutting 300 Jobs in Companywide Retrenchment
10/3/2014 - Piers Morgan: Ted Turner Didn’t Care About Ratings and Neither Should Jeff Zucker
9/24/2014 - CNN President Jeff Zucker Envisions More Series—Says Cable News Is Not a “Very Healthy” Medium
8/26/2014 - CNN Ends Talks With Glenn Beck’s The Blaze
8/25/2014 - Reality Bites—CNN President Zucker Says Network Will Have to “Do Less With Less”
8/5/2014 - CNN May be David Gregory’s Next Stop
6/2/2014 - CNN President Jeff Zucker Tells Staff He Is “Proud” to Work at CNN
5/21/2014 - Jeff Zucker: CNN Won’t Be “Shamed” Into Covering Benghazi
5/14/2014 - CNN’s 9 PM-Hour Ratings Sink to Second-Lowest in 15 Years
3/8/2014 - CNN’s Jeff Zucker: New Lineup Will “Evolve Over Time”
2/24/2014 - “Piers Morgan Live” Is Dead
2/21/2014 - Sinking Feeling — “Piers Morgan Live” Hits Second Lowest Rating Ever in Demo
2/19/2014 - What Haz Happened to the News At HLN?
1/29/2014 - Shark Tank Rerun Beat Piers Morgan
1/27/2014 - CNN’s Zucker: Breaking News is Not Long-Term Game
1/23/2014 - CNN Ratings Tank—Morgan May Be On the Way Out
1/15/2014 - CNN President Zucker: “We’re Not Under Any Pressure” to Change Primetime Lineup
1/8/2014 - CNN’s Zucker Promises a Prime Time Shakeup in 2014
12/26/2013 - 2013 Ratings: Fox News Number One for 12th Straight Year
12/3/2013 - CNN President Jeff Zucker: “We Need More Shows and Less Newscasts”
11/21/2013 - Jeff Zucker Yet to Work His Magic at CNN
11/12/2013 - CNN’s “Crossfire” a Ratings Laggard, But a Social Media Success
9/18/2013 - Crossfire Ratings Tank
8/6/2013 - Crossfire Set to Return on September 16
7/24/2013 - Jeff Zucker: The Future of CNN is Digital
7/5/2013 - CNN Bans Nancy Grace from “Good Morning America”
7/2/2013 - Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Apparently Tried (And Failed) to Rejoin CNN
6/4/2013 - MSNBC President Phil Griffin: We’re “Not the Place” For Breaking News
5/13/2013 - CNN’s Zucker Hoping to Make Network Number One By 2016
4/24/2013 - Boston Bombings Propel Fox News to First Place
4/18/2013 - Jeff Zucker Says CNN Isn’t “Compelling” Enough; Calls Competitors “Jealous”
4/10/2013 - Surprise! CNN Cancels “The Point” After Just One Week
3/27/2013 - CNN Tried to Snare Television Rights to O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus”
3/20/2013 - Jake Tapper’s “The Lead” Gets Off to A Bumpy Start
3/5/2013 - CNN Programming Revamp Hits a Speed Bump
2/7/2013 - CNN’s Bad Night: HLN Beats Network in Demo From 5-9 P.M.
2/6/2013 - John King Staying With CNN, Anderson Cooper Role is Lessened
2/1/2013 - Zucker Shakes Up CNN, Still Eyeing Curry
12/24/2012 - CNN’s President Signs Off- Puts On a Happy Face
12/21/2012 - Soledad O’Brien Is Betting CNN Will Stay Focused on Hard News—Not Turn Into “Ice Road Truckers”
12/17/2012 - Fox News Rolls to 11th Year As Number One Cable News Channel
12/12/2012 - Curry News Network? CNN’s Zucker Reportedly Wants to Hire Former NBC ‘Today’ Host Ann Curry
12/11/2012 - Shake-up Looming at CNN—Zucker Eyes Moving Burnett to Mornings
11/28/2012 - Can Jeff Zucker Save CNN?
9/26/2012 - CNN May Reach Back in Time for New Boss
5/5/2011 - Jeff Zucker: ‘No Secret Meeting to Turn MSNBC to the Left’
1/29/2011 - Couric Mulls Syndicated Talk Show
