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CNN’s president has fired a warning shot at Donald Trump
Washington Post ^ | January 19, 2017 | Callum Borchers

Posted on 01/23/2017 6:23:15 AM PST by Zakeet

Don't mess with CNN.

That's the unvarnished version of a message that the network's president, Jeff Zucker, delivered to President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday by New York magazine.

"One of the things I think this administration hasn’t figured out yet is that there’s only one television network that is seen in Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, Pyongyang, Baghdad, Tehran and Damascus - and that’s CNN," Zucker said. "The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continuing to have an adversarial relationship with that network is a mistake."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakenews; first100days; hangemhigh; msm; threat; thugculture; trump; trump45; trumpmedia; zucker
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I'm going to intimidate the Donald to the point where he quits calling our made up stories "fake news"!

1 posted on 01/23/2017 6:23:15 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Arrogant rich liars still lie.


2 posted on 01/23/2017 6:24:08 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Zakeet

CNN fails to be relevant.


3 posted on 01/23/2017 6:24:58 AM PST by G Larry (Pretending Podesta's e-mail are "The American Election System" is nonsense.)
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To: Zakeet

Truth hurts, eh?

Then quit making it up.

Or what are you going to do? Report MORE fake news about him.

You’re going to harass him anyway, but keep pushing it and he’s going to revoke your press credentials and bury you.


4 posted on 01/23/2017 6:25:18 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Zakeet

Wow. He just threatened the POTUS with...doing what he’s been doing for the last 12 months anyway.


5 posted on 01/23/2017 6:25:28 AM PST by JusPasenThru (SJW is the weaponization of compassion.)
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To: G Larry

Trumpster should tell the NSA to just block their signals.


6 posted on 01/23/2017 6:25:35 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Zakeet

hey zuckdung,

President Trump does not back down from punks, he does not react well to threats from two bit political whores, like you.


7 posted on 01/23/2017 6:25:49 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: Zakeet

Quote:

“Don’t mess with CNN. “

Said the little rat to the eagle.


8 posted on 01/23/2017 6:26:21 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Zakeet
"One of the things I think this administration hasn’t figured out yet is that there’s only one television network that is seen in Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, Pyongyang, Baghdad, Tehran and Damascus - and that’s CNN," Zucker said. "The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continuing to have an adversarial relationship with that network is a mistake."

And Zucker fails to realize that there are other sources for news in the world besides them.

9 posted on 01/23/2017 6:26:26 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Zakeet

CNN - a favorite of barbaric dictatorships around the world.


10 posted on 01/23/2017 6:26:27 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Zakeet

That guy looks like a total d-bag.


11 posted on 01/23/2017 6:26:53 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, Pyongyang, Baghdad, Tehran and Damascus

Hotbeds of 1st Amendment worship...

12 posted on 01/23/2017 6:27:05 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Mouton
Trumpster should tell the NSA to just block their signals.

Not until Congress declares war officially.
13 posted on 01/23/2017 6:27:25 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Zakeet

I am reminded of the scene in “The Dark Knight” where the accountant at Wayne Industries tells Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) that he knows who Bruce Wayne really is. The accountant wants $10M a year, for life.

Lucius Fox: Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands; and your plan, is to *blackmail* this person? Good luck.


14 posted on 01/23/2017 6:27:42 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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“The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN”

Probably the reason CNN will be shunned.


15 posted on 01/23/2017 6:28:08 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LOL


16 posted on 01/23/2017 6:28:11 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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"One of the things I think this administration hasn’t figured out yet is that there’s only one television network that is seen in Beijing, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, Pyongyang, Baghdad, Tehran and Damascus — and that’s CNN,"

And Eason Jordan divulged that he covered up atrocities by Saddam Hussein in order to maintain their bureau in Baghdad.

The question is not how CNN portrays "the perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world," it is how CNN is portraying China, Russia, the Koreas, Iraq, Iran, and Syria to Americans.

-PJ

17 posted on 01/23/2017 6:28:13 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Zakeet

Let’s see. Does CNN need Donald Trump more than Donald Trump needs CNN?


18 posted on 01/23/2017 6:28:32 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: TTFlyer

Get the feeling CNN just walked into a world of hurt?


19 posted on 01/23/2017 6:28:48 AM PST by stormhill
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To: Zakeet

CNN announces that it is pure leftist propaganda. Now every one can agree that they are Fake News 24/7.


20 posted on 01/23/2017 6:29:14 AM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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