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CNN: A fallen idol, a suppurating stew
of bawl-babies, and high-school schemers

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Posted By: PageTurner, 2/9/2022 9:09:09 AM

It's been nearly a week since CNN's top executive, Jeff Zucker, got the boot, supposedly over a longtime affair with a subordinate, and the bawling through the ranks hasn't stopped. Here's how bad it is, according to website Puck, apparently an industry-insider blog, spotted by Ace at Ace of Spades: Five days after Jeff Zucker‘s dramatic and still-stunning ouster from CNN, network insiders remain vexed by WarnerMedia C.E.O. Jason Kilar‘s refusal to elaborate about the circumstances that led to their former leader’s resignation. On Monday morning, Kilar held yet another Q&A session with CNN’s top producers and on-air talent in New York—this time over video conference,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Nashman 2/9/2022 9:21:02 AM (No. 1066612)
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch. I hope they fire each one over a protracted time period, making it more painful.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: john56 2/9/2022 9:26:05 AM (No. 1066622)
My old feeble memory reollects that the folks at Veritas were able to get their hands on some of Zucker's strategy sessions (ie, "Get Trump") a few years ago. Perhaps they might be of interest in light of these recent events. As for Chris Cuomo's scorched earth strategy, I'm hoping that it is successful but he spends every stinkin' dime he collects on legal fees and such. And the rest of us can sit back and get your hot buttered popcorn right here!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: rushie 2/9/2022 9:31:51 AM (No. 1066630)
I love the word “bawl baby”!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 2/9/2022 10:44:04 AM (No. 1066725)
CNN is hiring! There were two stories yesterday regarding new faces at CNN. Of course, only totalitarians need apply.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: formerNYer 2/9/2022 10:44:44 AM (No. 1066726)
cnn is a network for the stupid - the Canadian Truckers are dangerous but blm and antifa have peaceful protests while building burn all around them. I'm not sure who's dumber cnn watchers or messnbc watchers?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 2/9/2022 11:17:05 AM (No. 1066765)
Great headline! Great article. No surprise. Monica is one of the very best journalists out there, and some of us old-timers had the pleasure of knowing her when she was an LDotter...
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Reply 7 - Posted by: crunchycon 2/9/2022 11:33:00 AM (No. 1066787)
I thought my mom was the only one to use the term "bawl-baby."
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 2/9/2022 11:35:39 AM (No. 1066795)
Let's hope that they go out of business with no viewers.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mc squared 2/9/2022 12:02:44 PM (No. 1066821)
Grieving process? Shockwave? Mental health? Incredibly destabilizing and unsettling? Death penalty? Throw in "threat to democracy" as has been stated elsewhere and this is starting to sound like the apocalypse to these clowns. A window into the liberal mind. Everything that happens is the end of the world for them. Their very foundation has crumbled because their belief system is based on nothing. They cling to idiotic memes and causes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 2/9/2022 12:15:48 PM (No. 1066831)
Monica tops herself with this one. Funny - - funny - - funny - - funny! Please read it - - and laugh!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Starboard_side 2/9/2022 12:23:29 PM (No. 1066839)
It might be of interest to the expected incoming Republican House members to check for the phone records, and phone purchase records, of the currently constructed J6 committee (and staff), to see if there was essentially a direct path to the folks at CNN.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: GoldenSt8r 2/9/2022 1:15:20 PM (No. 1066881)
Thoroughly enjoyable article.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: lakerman1 2/9/2022 1:29:35 PM (No. 1066894)
For some reason, I am reminded of the final episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show. Ted Baxter was the only survivor.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Italiano 2/9/2022 2:06:16 PM (No. 1066929)
This here's a total butt-kicking. Fun read.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: dbdiva 2/9/2022 2:08:34 PM (No. 1066933)
When Stelter gets canned perhaps he can move to Canada and be part of "Trudy's" communication team. He'd fit in just fine, I'm sure.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Lawsy0 2/9/2022 3:48:30 PM (No. 1067010)
Maybe Chris Wallace smelled blood in the water. But now there's nobody to ask what that means. Speaking of putting a thesaurus under my pillow--I just turned 80 y/o and have never heard of the word ''suppurate.''
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 2/9/2022 4:18:28 PM (No. 1067043)
There is no way Zuckerberg was fired over an office romance. I was thinking today of Garrison Keillor, who used to produce "A Prairie Home Companion" on NPR. He was an early casualty of "Me Too". Thing is, he wasn't just canceled, or fired, he was more like erased. NPR erased that guy and his show and NEVER elaborated on the details of why. Which suggests that what went on at his show, behind the scenes, must've been pretty bad. Zuckerberg's firing just had me thinking along those lines. I think what was really going on was much worse.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Mr C 2/9/2022 4:21:38 PM (No. 1067044)
Rumor has it that sex partners are in short supply in CCCNNN's hallways since Zucker Aucked them all!
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Hazymac 2/9/2022 4:25:37 PM (No. 1067047)
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: mifla 2/10/2022 4:35:07 AM (No. 1067416)
I think CNN's new owners are going to clean house and turn CNN into something resembling a news organization. That would be quite the blow to the Dems. We shall see.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: LadyChurchillUSA 2/12/2022 6:31:25 AM (No. 1069588)
"on air talent"???? They have talent at CNN? Since when?
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