Originally posted by ranger312: As the old Chinese saying goes, "A journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step".
Maybe AT&T (CNN's parent company) was getting a little tired of all the BS at CNN
Something's going on. Front page of today's Wall Street Journal announced that AT&T is spinning off Warner, with shareholders getting 24 cents for every share they hold. 24 cents seems pretty far down into the dumps, IMHO.
February 02, 2022, 01:36 PM
sdy
not just "close" colleague, "closest"
brian stelter: the relationship is with Allison Gollust, the chief marketing officer for CNN. Gollust is remaining at CNN.
February 02, 2022, 01:39 PM
parabellum
"I was wrong"
Yeah, when a leftist says "I was wrong" they mean "Fuck, I got caught and can't lie my way out of it!"
They can never be wrong. Everyone knows that.
February 02, 2022, 01:45 PM
Krazeehorse
Travis and Sexton are speculating that Zucker was already in a relationship with her and that's why he hired her. And that's the real corporate no no.
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February 02, 2022, 01:57 PM
sdy
Gollust came to CNN in 2013 when she left NBC, where she and Zucker had previously worked together for 15 years.
Matthew Belloni: Potentially important: I’m told CNN received a litigation hold letter recently from Chris Cuomo lawyers, demanding, among other things, preservation of all communications between Zucker, comms chief Allison Gollust, and Andrew Cuomo. Andrew ??
Jon Nicosia: Source: The upcoming Cuomo/CNN lawsuit is going to expose "a lot of dirty laundry on the workings of CNN" Based on my source, Cuomo was "very good at keeping emails". A second source within Warner/Discovery wants this to be "settled" before they take over next year.
Source: Chris Cuomo "has damaging audio of discussions with Jeff Zucker."
February 02, 2022, 01:58 PM
PASig
These are two tweets from a guy I follow there by the name of Benny Johnson:
quote:
Benny @bennyjohnson
Hearing some incredible inside info about what is really happening at CNN right now — holy shit
There’s a place for CNN in the proposed $43 billion combination of WarnerMedia and Discovery, billionaire media mogul John Malone told CNBC in a recorded interview that aired Thursday.
“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” said the cable TV pioneer and longtime chairman of Liberty Media, which is a major shareholder in Discovery. “I do believe good journalism could have a role in this future portfolio that Discovery-TimeWarner’s going to represent.”
Back in May, AT&T announced a deal to combine its content unit WarnerMedia with Discovery. Under the agreement, AT&T will unwind its $85 billion acquisition of TimeWarner, which closed just about three years ago and form a new and separate media company with Discovery. It will bring together AT&T-owned CNN, HBO and the Warner Bros. studio and Discovery’s channels, including Animal Planet, TLC and its namesake Discovery Channel. At the time of the announcement, the parties had said they hoped to close the transaction in the middle of next year.
“A coward’s way out would be to sell [CNN] or spin it off and then sell it,” Malone said, in response to a question from CNBC’s David Faber on whether the cable news network would fit into the video streaming ambitions of the merged company, which will be named Warner Bros. Discovery.
Shortly after the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger was initial announced, Malone told CNBC at the time that he sees the combined company becoming the No. 3 global streamer behind Netflix and Disney+.
February 02, 2022, 02:35 PM
Tn226
Is Cuomo trying to justify his covering for his snake brother (or brother snake) by using Zucker?
If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would be funny.
Oh and 18 mil severance? Damn.
February 02, 2022, 02:56 PM
darthfuster
What a cesspool. No wonder they identify with Leftists.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
February 02, 2022, 04:06 PM
PASig
I wonder if Don Lemon and the serial masturbator are next to go?
Lemon has allegations against him too and they should have never hired that jerkoff back, what a complete joke and lack of morals those people have.
February 02, 2022, 04:30 PM
P-220
Niech Zyje P-220
Steve
February 02, 2022, 04:38 PM
parabellum
So, how long has Zucker been cornholing Stelter?
February 02, 2022, 04:40 PM
ArtieS
Well, until they sort their shit out...
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
February 02, 2022, 05:19 PM
mbinky
quote:
Originally posted by PASig: ...the serial masturbator are next to go?
One of my favorite quotes seen today:
"Looks like Jeffery Toobin was the only CNN employee who could keep his hands to himself"
February 02, 2022, 05:25 PM
parabellum
The fact that Jeffy Jackoff still has a job tells you everything you need to know about that whorehouse.
February 02, 2022, 05:38 PM
darthfuster
The mental image of Stelter’s eyeballs bulging cartoonishly with every Zucker thrust is making me lol
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
February 02, 2022, 05:44 PM
erj_pilot
quote:
Originally posted by snoris: The made-for-cable title for this affair will be "Allison Zuckerland."
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
February 02, 2022, 05:47 PM
PASig
quote:
Originally posted by darthfuster: The mental image of Stelter’s eyeballs bulging cartoonishly with every Zucker thrust is making me lol