Zucker out at CNN

[Paul Murray]

Jeff Zucker resigned on Wednesday as the president of CNN and the chairman of WarnerMedia’s news and sports division, writing in a memo that he had failed to disclose to the company a romantic relationship with another senior executive at CNN.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/business/media/jeff-zucker-cnn.html

[PGage]

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.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 8:13 AM Paul Murray <pmur...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Jeff Zucker resigned on Wednesday as the president of CNN and the chairman of WarnerMedia’s news and sports division, writing in a memo that he had failed to disclose to the company a romantic relationship with another senior executive at CNN.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/business/media/jeff-zucker-cnn.html

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[Bob Jersey]

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:

[PGage]

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.

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[Paul Murray]

'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."

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I guess “beloved by colleagues” won’t be Zucker’s legacy.

On Mar 11, 2022, at 4:17 PM, Paul Murray <pmur...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:



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