"Shamed" is it? CNN is currently a joke for its nonstop coverage of missing Fight 370 (http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/18/the-fi...coverage-video/) and its ratings fall below even MSNBC. But this clown won't be "shamed" into covering Benghazi?
CNN President Jeff Zucker declared his network would “not going to be shamed” into covering Benghazi and other stories without “real news value” at an awards dinner Monday.
Capital New York reports that Zucker explained CNN’s post-plane plans during an interview at the Deadline Club’s annual dinner on Monday night.
“I don’t think there’s any question about our commitment to breaking news, as evidenced by all the questions about the plane,” Zucker told The New York Times’ Bill Carter
“So we’re still there whenever that happens,” he continued, “but we’re going to supplement that with some different kind of storytelling.”
What kind of stories? “Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about,” he explained — though he lamented the fact that “when we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience’s part.”
But there are some stories Zucker is loathe to touch, like the House select committee on Benghazi scandal.
“We’re not going to be shamed into it by others who have political beliefs that want to try to have temper tantrums to shame other news organizations into covering something,” he explained, taking a not-so-subtle shot at the Republican Party. “If it’s of real news value, we’ll cover it.” [He means as long as the "real news value" doesn't reflect badly on Obama and the Democrats]
"Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention....though he lamented the fact that “when we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience’s part.”
Yeah in their own words they write their own obituaries. We're going to cover news that we think is important, not what you think. No shame on us!
******************* "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly." Abraham Lincoln
"Either the Republican party will reform itself or its going the way of the wind." Pat Caddell at CPAC
Ah. Jeff Sucker. The man who single handedly ran NBC prime time, the was consistently in first place, into last and then was forced to take a gig at failing CNN. Now, to everyone's astonishment, he has driven CNN behind the the DYI channel. This dude is a clown and nothing he says is relevant to the real world.
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