CNN captain's sudden resignation...

"I don't report a relationship with a colleague"

Yesterday's most talked-about case in America was the sudden resignation of CNN President Jeff Zucker.

Daytime news anchor Kate Balduan came out with a very dark expression and processed the news in the form of breaking news, saying that the CEO of CNN is stepping down.

Zucker's statement revealed that he had been in a consensual romantic relationship with a colleague he had been working with for 20 years, and that he was at fault for not disclosing it.

He admitted that he had an ethical responsibility to inform the company if he was in a romantic relationship with a subordinate, but that he had violated that point.

The opponent was Allison Gollust, CNN's Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President.

She was such a prominent figure on CNN that she was featured in the press as her next president candidate.

She had the absolute trust of Zucker.

They were both married, but it has been reported that they both recently divorced.



Zucker was the producer of NBC's morning broadcast, Today, in the 2000s, leading the show's heyday.

He was the person who invented the concept of a slightly comfortable morning broadcast by combining hard news with life-related news.

The person responsible for promoting this program was Gollust.

Katie Curick, the host at the time, said in her autobiography that it was strange that the two were so close from then on, and that Zucker was the one who insisted on hiring Gollust at the time.

It was a secret known to everyone in the industry that the two were very close.

Zucker said in a statement that he had been in a relationship with Gollust since the coronavirus.


Muddy fight that began during the process of firing CNN anchor Cuomo

The way this case came to light is very ugly.

This case also begins with the suspicion that CNN anchor Chris Cuomo openly attended a response meeting to protect his older brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, of sexual harassment, and actually intervened like an activist.

When this issue first appeared in the press, Zucker was desperate to cover up Cuomo and left the program to run.

Chris Cuomo was an anchor on CNN's top-rated prime-time news broadcaster, and he decided he couldn't be left out.

However, Zucker was fired after another allegation that Anchor Cuomo sexually assaulted a former junior female anchorman.

(Cuomo's annual salary was $6 million, but he didn't even get this money.)




However, Chris Cuomo completely denied the allegations like his older brother.

Zucker also claimed that he knew everything about attending the countermeasures meeting, which was clearly a journalistic error.

Rather, he protested that Governor Cuomo was not the president when he insisted on hiring his older brother when the stock price was very high in the early days of Corona.

Then, when he abruptly announced that he had been fired for sexual misconduct, he filed a lawsuit through his attorney, Cuomo.

In the process, Zucker's inappropriate relationship was exposed, according to insiders familiar with the case.



Before joining CNN, Gollust served as the public relations director for Governor Andrew Cuomo.

The Zucker-Gollast-Cuomo family were already intricately intertwined.

Anchor Cuomo was also aware of their inappropriate relationship, and when he was laid off in the form of being fired, he started a battle of revelations, and even President Zucker couldn't stand it and resigned.


The person who spread the comic-style 'commentary news' and made Trump a political giant

Zucker, who has served as CNN's president since 2013, is a man of great energy and there is no question in the American press. I tried to build the characteristics of CNN in a focused reporting manner. Rather than delivering straight news, the anchors' commentary (explanation, critique) was strongly demanded, and that method was reflected in the news as well. Evening prime time news on US news channels is far from the traditional general news we think of. The Tucker Carlson Show on Cuomo Prime Time or competitor Fox News is actually more of a comic strip than news. He captures the anchor's one-shot almost from beginning to end, and mixes news and his claims like japtangjjigae. Your favorite anchor mixes news and opinions, and this type of news that Zucker started in earnest has become the norm. This is possible only if there is a unique star anchor, but in a way, it can be said to be the original example of broadcasting that delivers political commentary on YouTube these days.



Former President Donald Trump was the most heavily invested politician by CNN, whose captain Zucker was the captain.

Recognizing the value of Trump as news, President Zucker shifted his focus to reporting Trump, and CNN became more and more of a political mogul as CNN focused on his criticism of Trump.

During the Trump era, CNN had a high proportion of reports about him to the extent that he wondered how to live without him.

Trump, with his media genius, appeared more often on CNN as he criticized CNN more harshly, and a hostile symbiotic relationship was born, where CNN featured Trump more often to criticize Trump harder.

Of course, the relationship between Trump and CNN was uncomfortable, but in terms of box office, they needed each other.

In fact, until early 2021, CNN's performance has been very good.

It even surpassed Fox News and MSNBC to become number one among cable news channels.




I couldn't even start CNN+, which was chosen as the solution to the CNN crash.

However, with the birth of the Biden era at the end of the first half of 2021, the downfall of CNN became evident every day.

They try to make news that suits their tastes as guests of the progressive camp, but their loyalty is significantly lower than that of Fox News.

Conservatives are grinding their teeth to come back to the lost regime while watching Fox News, but there are not many loyal CNN viewers who have this kind of regret.

(President Biden's uninteresting character also seems to have affected the news ratings.) Fox grabs Biden's point and writes an article criticizing it, and viewers flock to it, but CNN can't do this or that.

CNN is now at its worst performance since 2014.

At the end of 2021, there was only one cable news program in the top 25, and that was Anchor Cuomo's Prime Time.



President Zucker was preparing a paid streaming service called CNN+ to break through this crisis.

He paid a hefty ransom to sign Fox News star Chris Wallace (Wallace was actually one of Fox's least-fox-neutral news outlets. He's a veteran anchor in the presidential debate that Trump messed up before the coronavirus.) ) Eva Longoria, who appeared in Desperate Housewives, is in charge of the travel program and plans to capture Hispanic viewers.

However, the main body of CNN anchors are planning to appear as a basic skeleton, but the captain disappeared before this paid subscription model was properly launched.

In the US too, news media are jumping into streaming, too, and in fact, I've been wondering how CNN is going to do this.

But Zucker couldn't even show his picture and left.

Warner Media, to which CNN belongs, was about to merge with Discovery in the near future.

The $43 billion deal is a huge deal for the media industry, and the key figure in the work was President Zucker.



Zucker demands allegiance, and his own person is the style to cover up any criticism.

Jeff Tubin, a former prosecutor who often appears as a CNN legal analyst, turned the media industry upside down by lewd behavior during a Zoom meeting with colleagues, which was criticized for allowing Zucker to wrap him around him and pave the way for him to appear on CNN.

However, as President Zucker, who also had Tubin, abandons Kumoo, a drama of conspiracy and betrayal is unfolding.

Sometimes I wonder if there will be a movie or TV show set in CNN's internal conflict with all the dramatic elements soon.



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