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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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:
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 […]
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 […]