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Media top headlines February 4
In media news today, an AP reporter spars with the State Department’s Ned Price over allegations on Russia, a report claims that Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust gave Andrew Cuomo COVID ‘talking points’ to combat Trump, and an MSNBC broadcast gets interrupted by a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ flag.
Discovery CEO David Zaslav was confronted on Friday about the future of CNN, the liberal network he is set to oversee once a looming merger is official, but claimed the ousting of now-former CNN boss Jeff Zucker had nothing to do with rumors the network could shift to a nonpartisan approach.
In fact, Zaslav claimed Discovery didn’t have anything to do with Zucker’s stunning exit, when he was bluntly asked on CNBC about the future of CNN, as well as remarks by Liberty Media chairman John Malone last year that he wanted CNN to revert to more traditional journalism.
Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Friday on CNBC that he had nothing to do with Jeff Zucker’s CNN exit.
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“Was there any conjecture that John Malone is behind the curtain? John Malone said it would be good if CNN had some journalists, that would be where I’d start,” CNBC anchor Joe Kernen said, paraphrasing Malone’s 2021 remarks.
JEFF ZUCKER’S CNN EXIT: FIERY MEETING, SOMBER CONFERENCE CALL PROVE MANY STAFFERS ALREADY MISS FORMER BOSS
“So you’ve got a guy who’s run it for nine years,” Kernen said, referring to Zucker. “I think of CNN in a totally different way than I thought about it years ago. I do. And John Malone, when you hear him, he’s still a big part of your life, a big part of Discovery, if he said we need CNN to go back to reporting news…”
Zaslav interrupted, “John is going to be a board member of this company, and I am the operating–,” before Kernen spoke over him asking if he had anything to do with Zucker’s exit.
LIBERTY MEDIA CHAIRMAN CHIDES CNN TO ‘ACTUALLY HAVE JOURNALISTS’ FOLLOWING AT&T-DISCOVERY MERGER
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