{"id":1322637,"date":"2022-02-21T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1322637"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:23:15","slug":"cnns-problems-are-bigger-than-jeff-zucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-problems-are-bigger-than-jeff-zucker\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Problems Are Bigger Than 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\">14<\/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%2Fcnns-problems-are-bigger-than-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=1322637&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 class=\"ArticlePageLedeBackground-bMjhmY eUjBwB\">\n<header class=\"ContentHeaderWrapper-vwGRk jzEBFx content-header article__content-header\">\n<div data-testid=\"ContentHeaderContainer\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderContainer-bxFcEA eTiIvU fymBPa\">\n<div data-testid=\"ContentHeaderTitleBlockWrapper\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderTitleBlockWrapper-jqwWfR eTiIvU dCMKjN\">\n<div data-testid=\"ContentHeaderRubric\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderRubricBlock-cesaur eTiIvU fmjUrK\">\n<div data-testid=\"ContentHeaderRubricDateBlock\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderRubricDateBlock-eerpLH eTiIvU jgMsiV\">\n<div class=\"RubricWrapper-cSFBEL fgyZyO rubric ContentHeaderRubricContainer-eXoFpZ cdFfXy\"><a class=\"RubricLink-CPHAg hShSfG rubric__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/annals-of-communications\"><span class=\"RubricName-eZaHyj FsKDn\">Annals of Communications<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 data-testid=\"ContentHeaderHed\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BaseText-fFzBQt ContentHeaderHed-kpvpFG eTiIvU fHXNkq klOfMA\">CNN\u2019s Problems Are Bigger Than Jeff Zucker<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ LightboxWrapper-bgKpQJ eTiIvU cItiRM\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderLeadAsset-kAsxFT eTiIvU kYjSBp lead-asset BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderLeadAssetWrapper-eZZiXg eTiIvU cYOHYw lead-asset--width-smallrule\" data-testid=\"ContentHeaderLeadAsset\">\n<figure class=\"ContentHeaderLeadAssetContent-iBIivC foKClt\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderLeadAssetContentMedia-bvwjcS eTiIvU dsudSA lead-asset__content__photo\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ SpanWrapper-kGGzGm eTiIvU fCMktF responsive-asset ContentHeaderResponsiveAsset-MZuHf iGitGv\"><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"aspect-ratio-container\" class=\"AspectRatioContainer-dgQA-Dr cnpmHU\">\n<div class=\"aspect-ratio--overlay-container\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A photograph of John Malone.\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dlOMGF byslZC responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Malone-CNN-John.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><figcaption class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ CaptionWrapper-brisHk cvqUss eWurSe caption ContentHeaderLeadAssetCaption-gdtQoV kDlcnf\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BaseText-fFzBQt CaptionText-cOFJqa eTiIvU fYICFM hTa-dbB caption__text\">The TV magnate John Malone, who has profited immensely from the consolidation of the media market, is poised to play an influential role in the new\u00a0company.<\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BaseText-fFzBQt CaptionCredit-cTdqxu eTiIvU eCQuey fXWSOn caption__credit\">Photograph by Hans Christian Plambeck \/ Laif \/ Redux<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div data-testid=\"ContentHeaderLeadRailAnchor\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ ContentHeaderLeadRailAnchor-edQIJA eTiIvU eKSXnK\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"PersistentAsideWrapper-OTtoN eOjWQq persistent-aside persistent-aside--align-left-lead-asset\" data-testid=\"PersistentAsideWrapper\">\n<div class=\"StickyBoxWrapper-euhCxU hiYPu sticky-box ContentHeaderPersistentAside-cUmZXg bPtvXK\">\n<div class=\"StickyBoxPrimary-fEgDcn dFVkFO sticky-box__primary\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"StickyBoxPlaceholder-jNQMsI laMCLq\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div data-attribute-verso-pattern=\"article-body\" class=\"ArticlePageContentBackGround-eCrksR lhmiWd\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ LightboxWrapper-bgKpQJ eTiIvU cItiRM\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePageChunksContent-hqHLaf cyochf\">\n<div data-testid=\"ArticlePageChunks\" class=\"ArticlePageChunks-lglntq hOuAQM\">\n<div class=\"GridWrapper-vNBSO jMumET grid grid-margins grid-items-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-kRgPDq DBpfE grid-layout--adrail narrow wide-adrail\">\n<div class=\"GridItem-buSdEM PibmB grid--item grid-layout__content\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BodyWrapper-ctnerm eTiIvU fTlKaZ body body__container article__body\" data-journey-hook=\"client-content\" data-testid=\"BodyWrapper\">\n<div class=\"body__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"has-dropcap has-dropcap__lead-standard-heading\">In 1973, Tele-Communications Inc., a cable company headed by a thirty-two-year-old named John Malone, was having trouble getting the city of Vail, Colorado, to accept its rates. An engineer by training, Malone is possessed of what the media mogul Barry Diller once called \u201ca frictionless mind.\u201d He has been nicknamed the Cable Cowboy, Darth Vader, and Rupert Murdoch\u2019s \u201cfrenemy.\u201d Back then, he was just beginning to build what would become a sizable portion of the modern cable landscape. In Vail, his company took its programming off the air for a weekend, and instead broadcast the names and phone numbers of local officials who were standing in the way of a deal. In the end, Malone got what he wanted. As he later <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/fortune_archive\/1989\/07\/31\/72300\/index.htm\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{\" element>told<\/a> <em>Fortune<\/em>, \u201cWe refuse to get raped by the programmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Today, Malone (no relation to the author) is one of the largest private landowners in the U.S., a libertarian who has profited immensely from the consolidation of the media market. He spent the eighties and nineties acquiring various financial stakes in cable providers; when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1994\/02\/07\/john-malone-flying-solo\"><em>The New Yorker<\/em> profiled him in 1994<\/a>, Malone controlled one out of every four cable boxes in the country. At one point, his stake in NewsCorp threatened the Murdoch family\u2019s control. Malone is also one of the largest shareholders in Discovery, known for reality-show offerings such as \u201c90 Day Fianc\u00e9\u201d and \u201cFixer Upper.\u201d Malone calls this kind of television programming \u201ccomfort food.\u201d \u201cI grew up in front of a TV,\u201d he <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1993-05-16-tm-35782-story.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{\" element>told<\/a> the Los Angeles <em>Times<\/em>, in 1993. \u201cI get lonesome if it isn\u2019t turned on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">As consumers turn increasingly to streaming services, the cable landscape that Malone helped build is falling apart: for $13.99 a month, a Disney bundle can get you access to the Disney+ animated-film vault, the Kardashians\u2019 forthcoming Hulu show, and ESPN\u2019s myriad sports offerings. But Malone, at eighty years old\u2014white-haired, with the wry, thin-lipped smile of a made-for-TV tycoon\u2014is not finished yet. Soon, WarnerMedia, which is currently owned by A.T. &#038; T., will merge with Discovery and make David Zaslav, Discovery\u2019s current C.E.O., the head of a new company, with properties that include Warner Bros., HBO, and CNN. \u201cJohn Malone is David Zaslav\u2019s mastermind,\u201d one TV-industry insider told me. \u201cJohn Malone is the brains of the operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The merger is an entr\u00e9e into the streaming war dominated by the likes of Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+, and perhaps a continuation of a theme of Malone\u2019s long career: a play for control in an ever-changing television landscape. Malone gave up supervoting shares in Discovery to form the new company. The largest shareholder in Warner Bros. Discovery will be Advance Publications, the parent company of Cond\u00e9 Nast and <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. Some argue that this means Malone\u2019s role could be diluted, too. But people I talked to said that Malone\u2019s close relationship with Zaslav and his acumen in the television business mean he will have an influence on the future of the new company that exceeds his ownership stake (which will be less than one per cent) and his single seat on the board of directors. \u201cHe\u2019s incredibly vital to this deal and incredibly invested in this deal,\u201d James Andrew Miller\u2014the author of \u201cTinderbox,\u201d an oral history of HBO, and one of the few journalists to interview the media-reticent Malone\u2014said. \u201cI\u2019m so tired of people saying, \u2018Well, you know, he\u2019s eighty, he\u2019s kind of out of it, or whatever\u2019\u2014but they don\u2019t understand the nature of this guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Recently, WarnerMedia has received some miserable press. CNN\u2019s president, Jeff Zucker, was forced to resign\u2013\u2013ostensibly for failing to disclose an intimate relationship with Allison Gollust, his closest colleague and the network\u2019s chief marketing officer. That relationship, however, seems to be only one factor. Zucker\u2019s departure came on the heels of the former anchor Chris Cuomo\u2019s firing, amid speculations about his battle for severance from CNN. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-local-correspondents\/the-code-of-chris-and-andrew-cuomo\">Cuomo was first suspended for offering inappropriate counsel<\/a> to his brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tag\/andrew-cuomo\">Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, the former governor of New York, who resigned after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment. <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/15\/business\/jeff-zucker-cnn.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{\" element>According to the New York <em>Times<\/em><\/a>, Zucker ultimately fired Chris after a woman\u2019s allegations of sexual assault surfaced. (A spokesperson for WarnerMedia said that the company had already decided to terminate Chris because of his involvement with his brother\u2019s defense, and the sexual-assault allegations only precipitated the announcement.) Chris Cuomo\u2019s spokesperson told journalists that the allegations \u201care false\u201d and that he \u201cwas never asked about the allegations prior to being terminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Earlier in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tag\/coronavirus\">the pandemic<\/a>, Zucker had pushed the Cuomo-brothers story line\u2014Andrew would come on Chris\u2019s show and they would discuss <em class=\"small\">COVID<\/em> safety while ribbing each other in an oddly puerile way for a news program. The shtick seemed to help ratings. A CNN journalist told me that Zucker was deeply involved in the details of those segments with the Cuomos and in coverage of the former governor, in general. Gollust, who formerly served as Andrew\u2019s communications director, \u201cwas also involved in that, and people who are real journalists at the company found that very distasteful, given her prior employment.\u201d The <em>Times<\/em> reported that an attorney for Chris \u201csent a letter to CNN demanding that the network preserve all documents related to any dealings between any CNN employee and anyone in the governor\u2019s office,\u201d a move that the <em>Times<\/em> noted might suggest that Zucker and others at CNN were also in touch with Andrew. In a memo issued Tuesday, the WarnerMedia C.E.O., Jason Kilar, said an investigation had found that Zucker, Gollust, and Cuomo had all violated company policies \u201cincluding CNN\u2019s News Standards and Practices.\u201d That same day, Gollust resigned.<\/p>\n<div data-attr-viewport-monitor=\"inline-recirc\" class=\"inline-recirc-wrapper inline-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monitor-anchor\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Risa Heller, a spokeswoman for both Zucker and Gollust, said it was \u201cpractically impossible for Jeff to be intimately involved in every editorial decision involving Governor Cuomo,\u201d and that he \u201cnever gave Andrew Cuomo advice.\u201d Heller added that Gollust \u201chad no involvement in editorial decisions beyond booking.\u201d On Friday, the <em>Times<\/em> reported that Andrew Cuomo sent Gollust messages about subjects he wished to be asked about on-air, which Gollust then sent to CNN staff, requesting they include them in their questions for the governor. (Heller told the <em>Times<\/em> that Gollust \u201cin no way suggested that inclusion of these topics was a condition of the interview, nor did she suggest the interview should be limited to these subjects.\u201d)<\/p>\n<div class=\"Container-imGeBO ftlPuP\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Zucker, who is an old friend of Zaslav\u2019s, had been seen as a person who could protect CNN, its content, and its budgets, after the merger. That might have been magical thinking. Warner Bros. Discovery will have more than fifty billion dollars in debt. A person with close industry ties said that Zaslav will probably have to make three to four billion dollars in cuts once he takes over the new company. \u201cThat\u2019s just to survive\u2014forget about whether you\u2019re going to be winning these [streaming] wars,\u201d the source said. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be an enormous amount of pain in terms of firing people.\u201d These cost savings might prove especially painful for CNN, a relatively small asset. The network brought in $1.7 billion in revenue in 2020, according to estimates; that same year, HBO earned $6.8 billion. As the industry insider told me, \u201cWhen people like [Zaslav]\u201d\u2014that is, someone used to the low-cost production of \u201cShark Week\u201d\u2014\u201crun into what news organizations cost, what talent costs, what it costs to cover stories, they are actually flabbergasted.\u201d That said, last week, after the Justice Department did not object to the merger, Zaslav called some of the anchors to say that he was excited and a fan of CNN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Zaslav appears to be leaning into the Hollywood side of the operation. He recently posed for a <em>Variety<\/em> <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/biz\/entertainment-industry\/david-zaslav-warner-bros-discovery-1235127820\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{\" element>profile<\/a> by a pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and has purchased a house owned by the late producer Robert Evans. His new world is glamorous, but the business challenges are steep. \u201cOur job is to grow the right side of the company\u2014the streaming business, the motion picture business and the TV production business\u2014faster than the traditional business declines,\u201d he told <em>Variety<\/em>, adding that movies were \u201c\u200bthe top of the funnel\u201d for driving new subscribers to its platforms, which the company hopes will reach two hundred million subscribers. In a 2019 <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/11\/21\/cnbc-exclusive-cnbc-transcripts-cnbcs-david-fabers-interviews-from-liberty-media-investor-day-today.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{\" element>interview<\/a> with CNBC, Malone described the elements that would eventually lead to a winning streaming bundle. \u201cAs those new packages are created, the guys who have uniqueness will start extracting more and more share, the prices will go up, and we will see this play again,\u201d he said. That \u201cuniqueness\u201d is likely not going to come from the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"GridWrapper-vNBSO jMumET grid grid-margins grid-items-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-kRgPDq DBpfE grid-layout--adrail narrow wide-adrail\">\n<div class=\"GridItem-buSdEM PibmB grid--item grid-layout__content\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BodyWrapper-ctnerm eTiIvU fTlKaZ body body__container article__body\" data-journey-hook=\"client-content\" data-testid=\"BodyWrapper\">\n<div class=\"body__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"paywall\">The launch, this spring, of CNN+, the network\u2019s streaming service, only serves to highlight some of the problems that could confound CNN as it looks for a place in the new company. CNN has made a number of high-profile hires for CNN+, such as the former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, the cook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/12\/20\/alison-roman-just-cant-help-herself\">Alison Roman<\/a>, and the actress Eva Longoria, who will host a food-and-travel series on Mexico. Tapper will have a book-club show, and Cooper will host one on parenting. Some employees, though, are dubious about who the audience for CNN+ will be. \u201cDo people really love Jake Tapper enough to want to watch his book club?\u201d one asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The TV insider told me that CNN+ is ultimately a way to build \u201cmuscle memory\u201d for when the traditional cable landscape wanes and programming has to be moved to a streaming service. \u201cThey\u2019re building a lifeboat,\u201d the source said. \u201cIt will be part of an offering that will be seen as driving some value to the larger HBO Max bundle.\u201d That outcome wasn\u2019t particularly reassuring to the CNN journalist I spoke with: \u201cIf CNN+ is supposed to be the eventual off-ramp for CNN to get out of a dwindling business, not having it as a stand-alone makes us feel like we\u2019re just kind of in this broader Discovery-WarnerMedia world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">There are also concerns at CNN about Malone\u2019s potential influence on the network\u2019s editorial tone, which, during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tag\/donald-trump\">Trump<\/a> years, centered opinion in prime time more than it ever had. Some at the network have argued that the Trump Presidency and its assault on fact and the press necessitated that change in tone and emphasis. A few months ago, in another <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/18\/john-malone-says-warnermedia-discovery-getting-rid-of-cnn-would-be-the-cowards-way-out.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{\" element>interview with CNBC<\/a>, Malone said, \u201cI would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with and actually have journalists\u2014which would be unique and refreshing.\u201d CNN\u2019s chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, interpreted the remark ominously, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/view.newsletters.cnn.com\/messages\/1644209198071bb997b05542c\/raw?utm_term=1644209198071bb997b05542c&#038;utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+-+February+6%2C+2022&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;bt_ee=odX068KwXq6PCb%2BQ3p%2FMV0ulTnQCTVvtDMo1%2BJVvXNtbBO%2Fbn4X%2FXQJaN08QMkEJ&#038;bt_ts=1644209198085\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{\" element>writing<\/a>, \u201cMalone\u2019s comments stoked fears that Discovery might stifle CNN journalists and steer away from calling out indecency and injustice.\u201d Malone once praised Rush Limbaugh for his willingness \u201cto say politically incorrect things\u201d and told Ken Auletta, in the 1994 <em>New Yorker<\/em> Profile, that he and his wife were \u201cnot socialistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Malone has called the idea of selling off CNN to make some cash \u201cthe coward\u2019s way out.\u201d But, given his lifelong proclivity for consolidation, there\u2019s another move that he could advocate for in the relatively near future: he might want to sell off Warner Bros. Discovery to another, bigger streaming service. \u201cI think that the number of people trying to do scripted programming on a global basis and buying this content away from each other will thin out as some people make it and some don\u2019t,\u201d he said, in 2019. \u201cAt some point some of the players are going to look at the numbers and they\u2019re going to say, you know, we no longer have belief that\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. hail mary passes are going to keep working.\u201d Cool and analytic, Malone could one day conclude that it would be best to cut loose from the streaming experiment as soon as the bottom line doesn\u2019t compute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In fact, the Warner Bros. Discovery deal is structured to make a sale quite feasible if the company decides\u2014as A.T. &#038; T. did\u2014that it can\u2019t compete on its own as a streaming giant. The great unbundling and re-bundling of media assets is still in its early stages, after all. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be winners and losers,\u201d Malone said, last year, of the transition from cable to streaming. \u201cWe\u2019re only in the third inning of this nine-inning game.\u201d It\u2019s one he\u2019ll want to win, if only for the hell of it. \u201cI have earned so much money that money doesn\u2019t interest me,\u201d he told the German publication <em>Der Spiegel<\/em>, in 2001. \u201cNow it is only the love of the game that drives me.\u201d While he\u2019s not the only powerful player at the new Warner Bros. Discovery table, he will undoubtedly still have a voice. \u201cIf you invite an eight-hundred-pound gorilla to lunch, he\u2019s going to eat what he wants,\u201d the person familiar with Malone said. \u201cHe has a seat at the table, and he\u2019s very good at expressing his opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"GridWrapper-vNBSO jMumET grid grid-margins grid-items-2 PaywallInlineBarrierWithWrapperGrid-gqzRWW iCxbFx grid-layout--adrail narrow wide-adrail\">\n<div class=\"GridItem-buSdEM PibmB grid--item grid-layout__content\">\n<div class=\"body body__inline-barrier article__body\">\n<div class=\"container container--body\">\n<div class=\"container--body-inner\">\n<aside class=\"PaywallInlineBarrierWrapper-bpaAxo lhNbqc\" data-testid=\"PaywallInlineBarrierWrapper\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"GridWrapper-vNBSO jMumET grid grid-margins grid-items-2 ContentWrapperGrid-haXkHn diFmFK grid-layout--adrail narrow wide-adrail\">\n<div class=\"GridItem-buSdEM PibmB grid--item grid-layout__content\">\n<div class=\"body body__container\">\n<div class=\"container container--body\">\n<div class=\"container--body-inner\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annals of CommunicationsCNN\u2019s &#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-1322637","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\/1322637","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=1322637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322637\/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=1322637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}