Am I wrong to think that besides greenlighting The Biggest Loser and helping Today rise with Katie Couric, Jeff Zucker has done nothing that was remotely successful at NBC? Yet he's been there about as long as Conan?
I seriously hope Comcast tells NBC where to go and walks away from the merger. If they don't do that, at least make Zucker's firing a condition of the deal. Zuck NBC. Except he already did. David ________________________________ From: Michael <[email protected]> >From what we've been reading about Zuck and Coco during their Harvard days, this is clearly the most expensive payback ever for a silly prank. Zucker is the real joke here. On Jan 16, 10:31 am, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think we can now look back over this entire period and blame Zuck for > consistently being an asshole and a liar. And the lies and assholatry were > almost always designed to protect Leno and put Conan in the worst possible > light. I guess they thought they were being real smart when the signed Conan > to the Tonight Show 6 years ago, but their really problem began when the > time came and Leno was still strong in the ratings, and Conan was already > showing signs of weakness against Ferg. They got cold feet and wanted their > cake too - it is at that point that their lack of integrity caught up with > and doubled down on their lack of intelligence. More straightforward men, > persuaded that they were backing the wrong horse at 11:30, would have either > tried to convince Conan to wait another 2 or 3 years, or paid him off and > cut him lose then, rather than put in place a scheme designed to humiliate > Conan.
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