So this definitely the other shoe dropping, or at least beginning to drop. CNN’s Bryant Stelter, in his newsletter on this last night, made the key observation:
“*Based on interviews of more than 40 individuals and a review of over 100,000 texts and emails, the investigation found violations of Company policies, including CNN's News Standards and Practices, by Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and Chris Cuomo."* *So Kilar is specifically referencing the newsroom's standards and practices guidebook. Zucker's resignation memo referenced his failure to disclose his romantic relationship with Gollust, a violation of business conduct, not news standards.”* https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/16449872977794c7c812bc476/raw It never really made sense that Zucker (who is an asshole) would be fired for not formally disclosing a romantic relationship that everyone in the company already knew about. It does make sense that he was fired for violating core news standards, apparently having to do with being more aware and even involved with Chris’s efforts to help brother Andrew out. Whether Zucker(and his GF Gollust) were actually guilty of News standards violations will now be in dispute, but he was forced out of his powerful job at CNN because his superiors were convinced he was. Or because Cuomo had information that could make it look like he was, and was threatening to disclose it unless he got paid. Bottom line, Zucker got in trouble because he was in bed with the Cuomos, not because he was in bed with Gollust. Something like this was always a real danger as soon as they brought the brother of the nation’s most powerful governor in to be their highest profile anchor, a situation that required the most aggressive and disciplined management, and instead increasingly was managed sloppy and off the cuff. On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 at 5:38 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > The woman on the other end of that relationship, Allison Gollust, is also > parting, after she was found to have (also) been involved in the sitch > involving the Cuomos... > > > https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/allison-gollust-resign-cnn-warnermedia-1235183160/ > (link) > B > > PGage, to Paul Murray, Feb 2nd: > >> I may not have mentioned recently that Jeff Zucker is an asshole. >> >> If the truth is as reported, the relationship per se should not have >> resulted in his losing his job. Two divorced adults in a consensual sexual >> relationship. He is her boss, and should have registered it with HR (as we >> learned in “The Office”), but that omission by itself is not a capital >> crime. >> >> I think the problem is that Zucker dragged his feet with and protected >> Cuomo, and now it looks like that damaging decision may have been driven by >> his own situation. >> >> I am going to think of Zucker as losing his job because of how he dealt >> with Cuomo, not because he did not file the proper paperwork. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/95c43f51-6f3c-4837-a952-fdd341fb2d03n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/95c43f51-6f3c-4837-a952-fdd341fb2d03n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKfrXFtvwkE51T%2BBvEYtb0kD8fw0_wGNHY7EmemOYyXGQ%40mail.gmail.com.
