On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote:
> The man who ran NBC into the toilet, who currently is producing Katie > Couric's not-doing-as-well-as-it-should-be syndicated talk show, is > supposedly thisclose to replacing Jim Walton as the man in charge at the > news channel, according to the LA Times' Joe Flint: > > > http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-jeff-zucker-cnn-20121127,0,3937840.story > > The other prime candidate is Mark Shapiro, who ran ESPN into the > credibility toilet (if not profits) and is currently CEO of dick clark > productions--his lack of hard news experience may be a factor. > > Of course, if Zucker is the man, he will be hated by both the far right > for being a former NBC employee now at the channel that has been the long > time target of hatred by the right, and the far left, who are convinced > that CNN has become Fox Lite and will probably think that he'll keep things > status quo. > And now it's official: The Asshole runs CNN http://news.yahoo.com/cnn-names-jeff-zucker-chief-151447244.html -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
