CNN President Calls Fox News State-Run TV, Pure Propaganda Machine - TPM

[ffr]

CNN President Jeff Zucker criticized the journalistic integrity of rival Fox News at a media conference Thursday.

Zucker called Fox “state-run TV” and a “pure propaganda machine,” according to The Hollywood Reporter and journalists covering the event.

“There are a handful of good journalists there, but I think they are lost in what is a complete propaganda machine,” he reportedly told the audience at the Future of News conference, hosted by the Financial Times. “The idea that it’s a news channel, I think, is really not the case at all.”

Zucker also reportedly said Fox News “has nothing on” Russia’s state run program TASS Russian News Agency. He added that every cable news channel is “doing well, including Fox News.” - TPM

[spanone]

1. No Shit....K&R...

[blake2012]

2. Fuck Jeff Zucker

[elleng]

3. Nice, he speaks the truth and you say this?

[brush]

6. He's really just echoing what the analyst from FOX who resigned earlier this week,...

calling FOX a...you guessed it...a propaganda outfit.

Where has he been with his critique of FOX all this time?

[blake2012]

7. See post 5

[skylucy]

4. What? Why would you say that?

[blake2012]

5. Because hes a disingenuous piece of shit who openly admitted

CNN gave Trump tons of free political coverage. He’s a Foxnews competitor and sitting in 3rd place for cable news ratings. Fuck that clown.

[OnDoutside]

8. Well said. He's fully behind the CNN policy having Trump nutjobs on for entertainment's sake.

[skylucy]

12. Ok. Thanks for answering my question. I have to agree with you about how CNN coddled Trump

and gave too much airtime to his disgusting rallies etc. during the campaign.

[Maven]

9. Fuck Jeff Zucker.

He turned CNN into a reality TV clown show.

He hired Trump campaign operatives as "commentators" and paid them to deliver propaganda.

He covered Trump rallies for hours on end, uninterrupted.

He pushed RW hit jobs and Russian disinformation against HRC (including the bogus email "scandal" and Wikileaks).

He's as responsible for the mess we're in as anyone.

[Lucinda]

10. +1

[sarcasmo]

11. Zucker is one of the reasons our nation in this mess.