I guess “beloved by colleagues” won’t be Zucker’s legacy. > On Mar 11, 2022, at 4:17 PM, Paul Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 'Cuomo-W. Trump-L.': How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the > News > https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeff-zucker-cnn-resign-affair-cuomo-trump-1319698/ > > "... as was revealed days later in a statement by WarnerMedia CEO Jason > Kilar, that probe turned up not only Zucker and Gollust’s affair, but also > violations of journalistic best practices around the couple’s cozy > relationship with the governor. The initial suggestion was that these > failings were recent — lapses that took place during the extraordinary times > of the pandemic. But according to dozens of former colleagues who spoke with > Rolling Stone, they marked the culmination of Zucker’s three-plus decades > spent in a craven pursuit of ratings and power, a career that would foster a > toxic culture at two networks and fan the flames of the disinformation age > along the way." > >> On Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 10:05:57 AM UTC-5 PGage wrote: >> 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. >> -- >> 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/3c1e826d-4388-4a66-9404-481a1ac4edf4n%40googlegroups.com.
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