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AT&T Has CNN’s Zucker in Crosshairs Ahead of Time Warner Acquisition
Breitbart ^ | June 29, 2017 | Penny Starr

Posted on 06/29/2017 12:13:21 PM PDT by COUNTrecount

Following the revelation that CNN published fake news about the Trump administration and its alleged ties to Russia after an investigation by Breitbart News, the next head to roll at the embattled media company may be President Jeff Zucker.

“AT&T will look to ‘neutralize’ CNN President Jeff Zucker after it buys Time Warner,” the New York Post reported on Wednesday.

“The buzz from the telecommunications giant comes as CNN is being slammed for highly publicized missteps, according to three sources familiar with the thinking of AT&T brass,” the Post reported.

In the wake of Breitbart’s investigation, CNN issued the following retraction:

“On June 22, 2017, CNN.com published a story connecting Anthony Scaramucci with investigations into the Russian Direct Investment Fund,” CNN said in a statement late Friday night. “That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted. Links to the story have been disabled. CNN apologizes to Mr. Scaramucci.”

Three journalists responsible for the production of the fake news resigned as a consequence.

But even before the fake news story, CNN was under fire for its journalistic standards or lack thereof. CNN fired host Reza Aslanand and canceled his show, “Believer,” after he tweeted that President Donald Trump was a “piece of sh*t.”

“The $85 billion acquisition of CNN parent Time Warner by AT&T could win anti-trust approval by the Justice Department in the next 60 days,” the Post reported its source revealed.

“There was early talk about the way Zucker managed that wasn’t a good fit for the new organization,” one source said. “They were eyeing ways to neutralize him.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: atandt; atttimewarnermerger; cnn; timewarner; timewarnerattmerger; zucker
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To: COUNTrecount

I have a hard time understanding this. I thought the AT&T thing was off the table, since Time-Warner has become Spectrum.


21 posted on 06/29/2017 1:06:51 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: arrogantsob

ABSOLUTELY!

FOX gets their breaking news from CNN! LOL! And, as much as an hour behind them.

On election night, CNN always gets in whereas the rest only wish in one hand and hope in the other, for a small break.

It’s too obvious for words that as you say, even today CNN remains head and shoulders above the rest on breaking news, especially past elections.


22 posted on 06/29/2017 1:11:13 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: Lexington Green
CNN is to journalism what Dr. Mengele was to medicine.

Well done sir. Nothing else need be said.

23 posted on 06/29/2017 1:20:29 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Grampa Dave

CNN jumped the shark after the first Gulf War.


24 posted on 06/29/2017 1:30:36 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: arrogantsob

Keep the sound turned off and watch the body language on CNN—then you will know what is happening...if it looks like a funeral service then it has been a good night for Republicans.


25 posted on 06/29/2017 1:31:23 PM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: cgbg
"Keep the sound turned off and watch the body language on CNN—then you will know what is happening...if it looks like a funeral service then it has been a good night for Republicans."


26 posted on 06/29/2017 1:53:38 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (CNN is thrasing around like a worthless old rooster after the farmer, (AT&T), chopped its head off)
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To: COUNTrecount

For all news follow the money. The owners really determine what is printed or broadcast on air. Follow the money!


27 posted on 06/29/2017 2:00:13 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: RitaOK

“Now, someone needs to jerk Morning Joe around the collar and escort Crazy Mika and Psycho Joe to the unemployment line and on to the nearest clinic for mental rehab. Unhinged TDS!”

Corporations seeking a good profit, have learned not to $crew with 62+ million Trump voters.

After this week we will see many advertisers walking away from advertising on CNN and the Pyscho Joe and Crazy Mika TDS BS!


28 posted on 06/29/2017 2:00:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (CNN is thrasing around like a worthless old rooster after the farmer, (AT&T), chopped its head off)
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To: Grampa Dave

Another Short Attention Span Theater production safe for sharing with GenX and younger folk. Leftist snowflakes and Antifa morons – not so much!
30 SECOND VIDEO
https://youtu.be/AXu8vicUYm0


29 posted on 06/29/2017 2:01:27 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (America dodged a bullet. But remember that millions of morons are STILL OUT THERE!)
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To: Red Badger

To be spun off, there must be a buyer.

The recent videos are devastating to CNN when considered by potential buyers. There are very few willing to buy a rabid dog or hire a CEO with stage 4 pancreatic cancer

Rabies and pancreatic cancer are generally fatal. CNN is doomed


30 posted on 06/29/2017 2:03:41 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Democrat calls for kumbaya must be met with their blood on the ground)
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To: COUNTrecount
Zucker paid $12.7 million for his opulent, 11-room apt at 32 64th street:


31 posted on 06/29/2017 2:29:35 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Grampa Dave

I too believe the media has hit a crescendo, hit a wall, with their bastardized news. Advertisers *should* take notice and as you say start to peel off.

To be a wholesale Marxist political arm of the Left parading as noooz is to obvious.


32 posted on 06/29/2017 2:43:51 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: Red Badger

If spun off some new age rat monger pinhead gazzlinaire (see bezos, zuckerberg, etc.) will throw the necessary cash down the rat hole to keep the crap news network afloat.


33 posted on 06/29/2017 3:59:29 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: gaijin

Nice digs—glad he can be comfortable after a hard day of work lying and defrauding the public. :-(


34 posted on 06/30/2017 2:36:23 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: vikingd00d
AT&T already carries OANN.

they are about the only ones that do .... i wonder if they have an ownership stake

more and more i find myself watching oann ... it's a welcome relief from fox

35 posted on 06/30/2017 8:22:04 AM PDT by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: bigbob

If the news zeitgeist flips and Fox becomes CNN and CNN becomes the old Fox it’s going to take a while for my brain to wrap around it.

Sort of like the conundrum of when the East Bloc and Soviet Union fell. It took a while to accept that.


36 posted on 06/30/2017 8:54:20 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Climate Change: The Imminent Crisis That Never Arrives and the gravy train that never ends.)
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To: COUNTrecount
“There was early talk about the way Zucker managed that wasn’t a good fit for the new organization,” one source said. “They were eyeing ways to neutralize him.”

Might I suggest a .338 Lupa Magnum?

37 posted on 07/02/2017 2:22:00 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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