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At the Deadline Club’s annual dinner in New York City Monday night, CNN President Jeff Zucker told an interviewer that he was not “going to be shamed” into covering Benghazi because it had “no real news value.” The same network has been covering the missing Malaysian plane non-stop for the past two months.
“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.”
Just what does Jeff Zucker believe is “real news”:
“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.”
Maybe Jeff Zucker should get the hint that there’s a very limited market for even veiled left-wing propaganda. Since Zucker became CNN’s president in January 2013, the network has seen its prime time ratings fall to their lowest levels in 20 years.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
Unless the coverage is going to be, "It's election time, lets watch the Republicans drag out this dead horse and beat it again," it has no news value.
Are you similarly angry that Fox news keeps blowing Benghazi out of proportion to help the GOP score political points?
I hope they make room in jail for the producers that made this decision right next to idiot officials who did this.
originally posted by: ScientiaFortisDefendit
Funny, CNN doesn't see four Americans including a diplomat, killed in a terrorist attack on sovereign US territory as newsworthy, but they put Bush under a microscope and reported every little thing they could spin as negative.
And forget the event as newsworthy, how about reporting on it as the coverup of administration incompetence it is? Oh yeah, that would shed a negative light on their boss in the White House, and their hopeful future boss, HRC.
Quite transparent.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: MarlinGrace
I hope they make room in jail for the producers that made this decision right next to idiot officials who did this.
So now you're promoting locking up infotainment producers for choosing not to follow suit with Fox News?
See a lot of people on ATS are quick to yell "First Amendment!" whenever some bigot drops the n-bomb in public but this my friend, would be an bona fide violation of the First Amendment.
Funny, CNN doesn't see four Americans including a diplomat, killed in a terrorist attack on sovereign US territory as newsworthy, but they put Bush under a microscope and reported every little thing they could spin as negative.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Nyiah
To me, i'd drop it if accountability for failures was had. I don't care which side of the fence they are on, i want accountability. Especially when people die.
If that happened, you would see fewer people screaming about it.
Its like i tell newly married men: when your wife is screaming at you, don't just presume she is "just nagging" and ignore her. Pay attention and figure out what she is screaming about. Same with Benghazi. Half this country is screaming about it and being ignored.
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: ScientiaFortisDefendit
Funny, CNN doesn't see four Americans including a diplomat, killed in a terrorist attack on sovereign US territory as newsworthy, but they put Bush under a microscope and reported every little thing they could spin as negative.
Sorry but the CIA outpost they were killed at was not sovereign US territory. Also they hardly put Bush under a microscope seeing how we heard basically nothing about the 13 Benghazis that happened on his watch.