{"id":118096,"date":"2021-02-04T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118096"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:42:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:42:36","slug":"journalists-mourn-as-cnn-exec-who-fueled-trumps-rise-announces-plans-to-leave-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalists-mourn-as-cnn-exec-who-fueled-trumps-rise-announces-plans-to-leave-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Mourn as CNN Exec Who Fueled Trump\u2019s Rise Announces Plans to Leave Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjournalists-mourn-as-cnn-exec-who-fueled-trumps-rise-announces-plans-to-leave-network%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=118096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zucker-leaves.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN president Jeff Zucker, the media executive whose shameless obsession with ratings fueled Donald Trump&#8217;s rise to the White House in 2016, is leaving the network at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists at CNN and other outlets mourned the impending departure of Zucker, even as many of them continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/washington-post-opinion-struggle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggle to accept<\/a> the reality of Trump&#8217;s defeat in 2020. The outpouring of public praise, typically reserved for individuals who have made positive contributions to society, was weird.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zucker brought a producer&#8217;s brain, a nose for news, and an eye for talent,&#8221; wrote CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter. &#8220;Numerous stories described his hands-on management and his support for confrontational interviews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For example, host Chris Cuomo once <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/the-toughest-questions-chris-cuomo-asks-his-big-brother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confronted<\/a> his own brother\u2014Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.), aka the &#8220;Butcher of Albany&#8221;\u2014with an oversized cotton swab to make fun of his large nose while thousands of New Yorkers died from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>CNN host Jake Tapper told the <em>New York Times<\/em> that Zucker was &#8220;the best boss I ever had, and it&#8217;s not even close.&#8221;&nbsp;Stelter confirmed that Tapper&#8217;s comments expressed&nbsp;&#8220;what countless people at CNN feel about Jeff Zucker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Hollywood Reporter&nbsp;<\/em>noted that Zucker&#8217;s departure would mark &#8220;the end of an era for the venerable cable news network&#8221; and&nbsp;quoted an anonymous CNN reporter who lauded Zucker&#8217;s management style for inspiring &#8220;fierce loyalty from many reporters and anchors, especially those he championed and gave new opportunities, though even veteran anchors who predated his arrival grew to respect him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CNN host Don Lemon told NBC News media blogger Dylan Byers that he would try to persuade Zucker to remain at the network.&nbsp;&#8220;I&#8217;ve been at CNN for 15 years. The best of those years have been with Jeff,&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;He&#8217;s staying for another year. I&#8217;ll take it. But know this, I will spend the next year trying to convince him to stay longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class>Political correspondent Dana Bash was equally thrilled that Zucker was staying on for (at least?) another year.&nbsp;&#8220;I&#8217;m a 27-year CNN veteran. I have a very good perspective on what Jeff means to CNN\u2014how his leadership makes us all want to do and be better,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The fact that he is staying another year is music to my ears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from relentlessly covering every single one of Trump&#8217;s public appearances during the 2016 election, CNN is best known for the time its spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/cnn-mocks-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mocked a reporter<\/a> for doing &#8220;standard&#8221; journalistic outreach to sources, while the network itself was laying off investigative reporters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN president Jeff Zucker, the media executive whose shameless obsession with ratings fueled Donald Trump&#8217;s rise to the White House in 2016, is leaving the network at the end of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892659,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5316,5317,5313,5314,5319,3794],"class_list":["post-118096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exec","tag-fueled","tag-journalists","tag-mourn","tag-rise","tag-trumps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}