How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News
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How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News
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#2It's a shame what became of CNN. It used to be my most trusted news. I believed everything they told me.
Their credibility allowed them to be carried into very dark territory and they took me with them. Once the cracks started to show through I started looking into other sources and slowly became totally disillusioned.
They are a political mouthpiece more than a news organization. They sowed so much division in the country and created false narratives at the beck and call of their political benefactors. The Russia-gate scandal was a total fabrication that they reported on long after the facts and government investigations showed it was all bullshit and continued to spread misinformation and strife among the citizenry.
They don't inform their viewers, they weaponize them.
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#3Really disappointing what CNN became under Zucker. I'm of the generation where CNN was our window to the world - pre-mass Internet connectivity, if you had cable, or were passing through an airport, or in a hotel with it, you had access to a whole world of people and places that could plug into.
Really shameful what they did - from turning into a political mouthpiece, to finding new ways to heighten the temperature in society and divide people into ever more atomised units, CNN in recent history has been an absolute stain on society. The liars they have hired to stare into the camera day after day, solemnly declaring what is and is not "good" for you, while completing ignoring the issues that affect regular working-class people, are the true sociopaths to keep doing this daily without any self-reflection.
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#4It's become very clear to me that the people who call themselves leaders are as flawed, weak, and corruptible as anyone else. Arguably moreso. They're not especially moral and strong. So when they're put in (or ascend to) these expansive positions of power, we all feel their flaws, weakness, and corruption. Their problems become all of our problems, because their problems flow outwards, throughout everything that they influence.
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#5The Russia investigation coverage changed my view on the limits and possibilities of propaganda. Have never been more cynical of humanity, or rather, people running the show commonly have the same abilities as the school teacher at the local public school
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#6It's a shame what became of CNN. It used to be my most trusted news. I believed everything they told me. Their credibility allowed them to be carried into very dark territory and they took me with them. Once the cracks started to show through I started looking into other sources and slowly became totally disillusioned. They are a political mouthpiece more than a news organization. They sowed so much division in the c…
>They don't inform their viewers, they weaponize them.
Just the same as Fox, just the same as OAN, just the same as RT, just the same as MSNBC, just the same as ...
Re: How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News
#7Really disappointing what CNN became under Zucker. I'm of the generation where CNN was our window to the world - pre-mass Internet connectivity, if you had cable, or were passing through an airport, or in a hotel with it, you had access to a whole world of people and places that could plug into. Really shameful what they did - from turning into a political mouthpiece, to finding new ways to heighten the temperature i…
yep, turned from a good news source, to a 'tv version of a tabloid'
Sad to watch. MSNBC is similar (trying to copy Fox's model, of being highly partisan and very exaggerating everything)
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#8I sort of lost hope for CNN after they asked if a jet could have disappeared in a black hole.
https://www.thewrap.com/cnns-don-lemon-asks-black-hole-could...
Re: How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News
#9It's a shame what became of CNN. It used to be my most trusted news. I believed everything they told me. Their credibility allowed them to be carried into very dark territory and they took me with them. Once the cracks started to show through I started looking into other sources and slowly became totally disillusioned. They are a political mouthpiece more than a news organization. They sowed so much division in the c…
>They don't inform their viewers, they weaponize them. Just the same as Fox, just the same as OAN, just the same as RT, just the same as MSNBC, just the same as ...
Let's not change the subject with some whatabout-ism. We are talking about CNN.
Re: How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News
#10Really disappointing what CNN became under Zucker. I'm of the generation where CNN was our window to the world - pre-mass Internet connectivity, if you had cable, or were passing through an airport, or in a hotel with it, you had access to a whole world of people and places that could plug into. Really shameful what they did - from turning into a political mouthpiece, to finding new ways to heighten the temperature i…
Zucker's success in the media/entertainment industry is baffling because his reputation is basically as a wrecking ball. I have not seen any praise of his stewardship of NBC which made his selection as the person to run CNN bewildering.
One can only speculate about how he landed the position, but none of it seems to be based on observable successes at what he was paid to do.