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CNN chief is out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/02/02/cnn-president-jeff-zucker-announces-resignation-over-undisclosed-relationship-with-colleague/

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EDIT: ReptileHouse beat me to it! More context below on why he is out.

Jeff Zucker out at CNN for a relationship with a subordinate who was also a former comms director for Andrew Cuomo.

“As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years,” Zucker told employees in a memo. “I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong. As a result, I am resigning today.”

Zucker did not name his colleague, but the relationship is with Allison Gollust, his key lieutenant for the last two decades. Gollust is remaining at CNN.

Zucker and Gollust began working together at NBC in 1998. They rose through the ranks at the network together, and when Zucker joined CNN, Gollust was among his first hires. Just before coming to CNN Gollust had worked briefly as communications director for Andrew Cuomo. She is currently executive vice president and chief marketing officer at CNN.

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Zucker is one of the biggest tools/cronies in the media.

He went from running the Today Show to running all of NBC, which he tanked so Comcast could buy it.

You’d think tanking a network would get a guy a don’t-hire-me reputation, but he goes immediately to running CNN. We can thank him for a lot of the nonstop Shitgibbon campaign coverage in 2016.

Good riddance.

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And for garroting “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien”. I’m not sure what the greater injury to western civilization is. Like the French Revolution, we may need a few centuries to measure all the after affects.

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Oh god. We’re going to have Zucker’s dick pics entered into evidence aren’t we?

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I hope someone is checking on that guy this weekend.

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Seriously. A wellness check is definitely warranted.

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I don’t know much about St Louis except of what I experienced visiting there, but it feels like a middle planet pulled in four directions but ultimately tidally locked to always face Chicago.

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“I’m malaised as hell, and I’m going to continue taking it!”

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I thought it unlikely I would encounter someone who dislikes February even more than I do, but there it is!

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NEWS: Criminals and Non-criminals not being arrested and convicted at the same rates. . . Where is the equity!?

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As always, the Republican line of reasoning follows from the baseline assumption that Clinton is always guilty of everything.

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Serious question, did the NY Times get bought like in the last year or two and I just missed the memo?

It seems orders of magnitude worse than I ever remember.

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This is from 2018, so not that recent. It’s all about shares. They don’t care if you’re sharing because you agree or disagree, and like Facebook, they know more people share if it’s incendiary.

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It’s a once-great paper that threw out a reputation built over decades to chase clicks and “engagement”. There is still talent there and the occasional terrific piece of journalism makes it through the firewall of flaming shit that is the editorial side of things, but ultimately the answer is and only can be fuck the New York Times.

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In fairness, who can keep the details straight about these small, far-off, third world countries?

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Ottowa, next door to Otisburg.