{"id":1271752,"date":"2022-02-04T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1271752"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:23:40","slug":"scoop-brian-stelter-ate-his-feelings-at-mcdonalds-after-cnn-canned-jeff-zucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scoop-brian-stelter-ate-his-feelings-at-mcdonalds-after-cnn-canned-jeff-zucker\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOOP: Brian Stelter Ate His Feelings at McDonald\u2019s After CNN Canned Jeff Zucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fscoop-brian-stelter-ate-his-feelings-at-mcdonalds-after-cnn-canned-jeff-zucker%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=1271752&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:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/stelter-food.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter was in the mood for some &#8220;reliable sauces&#8221; early Thursday morning after a long day covering his boss Jeff Zucker&#8217;s sudden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/cnns-jeff-zucker-resigns-after-hiding-romantic-relationship-with-former-andrew-cuomo-spox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">departure<\/a> from the network.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter described making a late-night run to a popular American fast-food chain during the latest episode of his Reliable Sources podcast, which was obtained and reviewed by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After attempting to poke fun at the &#8220;cold Italian soup&#8221; his CNN colleague Oliver Darcy had for lunch, the host conceded: &#8220;That&#8217;s better than me getting McDonald&#8217;s at 12:30 in the morning last night after we finished work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zucker announced his resignation Wednesday, citing his failure to disclose a romantic relationship with Allison Gollust, the top communications executive at CNN who once served as an adviser to disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.). Stelter and Darcy&#8217;s initial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/02\/media\/jeff-zucker-cnn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on Zucker&#8217;s resignation was indistinguishable from a CNN press release:<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker, the influential news executive who reshaped the iconic network, announced Wednesday morning that he has resigned from his position effective immediately\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In recent years, Zucker led the network as it faced sustained attacks from former President Trump and his supporters. Under Zucker, CNN adopted a &#8220;Facts First&#8221; slogan and approach to the news and was unrelenting in calling out Trump for his lies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although Zucker and Gollust suggested the relationship had only recently become romantic,&nbsp;reporting by journalists who don&#8217;t work for CNN suggests that both are lying.&nbsp;Sources&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/jeff-zucker-cnn-investigation-affair-cuomo-1294608\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, for example, that the romance was an open secret dating back to 1996, when Zucker was executive producer of the<em> Today Show<\/em> at NBC and Gollust was a trainee at the network. Former <em>Today Show<\/em> host Katie Couric strongly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComfortablySmug\/status\/1488914506411614211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implied<\/a> as much in her 2021 memoir.<\/p>\n<p>Cable news insiders have called for Stelter <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/zuckers-water-boy-brian-stelter-knew-about-cnn-prezs-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to be fired<\/a> for failing to report on the affair, which one CNN source described as something that &#8220;everyone in the office knew.&#8221; There will almost certainly be additional revelations as the network continues its review of the scandal surrounding former primetime host Chris Cuomo, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/report-chris-cuomo-preparing-to-sue-cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired<\/a> for advising his brother, the disgraced governor, in an effort to discredit a former staffer who accused him of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1489383804842037249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/brian-stelter-cnn-reporting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained<\/a> that many Americans do not consider CNN to be a trustworthy source for news. Speaking on his podcast Thursday, the host lamented that Zucker&#8217;s departure and the surrounding scandals might further erode the network&#8217;s credibility. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to sound\u2014tell me if this is too grandiose. The world and the country are better off when CNN is strong, and when brands like CNN are strong,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The CNN correspondent rose to prominence in April 2020 when he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/parody\/journo-tears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confessed<\/a> to having &#8220;crawled into bed and cried \u2026 tears that had been waiting months to escape&#8221; because of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter was in the mood for some &#8220;reliable sauces&#8221; early Thursday morning after a long day covering his boss Jeff Zucker&#8217;s sudden\u00a0departure from the network. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271752","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=1271752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}