CNN really did stoop even lower

CNN really did stoop even lower

Per Rolling Stone, former CNN President Zucker was romantically involved long ago with the woman he quickly promoted to EVP. Some say the romantic link was well known and is being thrown up as the reason for his quitting to hide much worse – that Zucker and Gollust, together with Chris Cuomo, were all directly advising disgraced former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in how to respond to former President Trump.

The source says the investigation suggests Zucker and Gollust were advising the governor at the beginning of the Covid pandemic in ways not dissimilar to what led to Chris Cuomo’s dismissal. As Andrew sparred on a daily basis with then-President Trump over Covid messaging, the couple provided the governor with talking points on how to respond to the president’s criticisms of the New York crisis. They also booked the governor to appear on the network exclusively, which became a ratings boon for CNN, with Chris Cuomo doing the interviewing. Cuomo and Gollust’s conduct, too, would appear to mark an ethical breach for executives acting on behalf of an impartial news outlet.

“The autonomy of a news organization requires it to not be engaged in any sort of direct activity with any political actor,” says Tim Gleason, a journalism professor at the University of Oregon and media ethics expert, speaking broadly. “If they’re advising a politician [while] presumably reporting on activity that that politician is engaged in, that’s duplicitous and deceptive and a disservice to the audience of a news organization.”

Source: Jeff Zucker Resignation: CNN Probe Now Eyes His Ties to Andrew Cuomo – Rolling Stone

This is horrible for CNN as it largely confirms Trump (the buffoon)’s allegations that CNN is a fake news service. CNN is a public relations/propaganda mill – and its staff are garbage.

Looking back over recent years, it’s as if all of the media superstars turned out vastly overpaid windbags pedaling propaganda.

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