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CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
« on: November 01, 2018, 08:57:15 pm »
CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
By John Bowden - 11/01/18 04:20 PM EDT

CNN President Jeff Zucker said his network's audience would dwindle if its news programming shifted away from covering President Trump.

In an interview published in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, Zucker said the reason why CNN spends much of the day reporting on Trump's day-to-day activities and his rhetoric stems from viewer demand.

“People say all the time, ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk about Trump, I’ve had too much Trump,’ ” Zucker told Vanity Fair. “And yet at the end of the day, all they want to do is talk about Trump."

"We’ve seen that anytime you break away from the Trump story and cover other events in this era, the audience goes away," he added. "So we know that, right now, Donald Trump dominates.”

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Re: CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2018, 09:09:21 pm »
Like him or not he dominates world and national news. People are continually fascinated by every detail. At the moment, Trump surely is the most fascinating man in the world. Not bad for a guy from Queens. Some people might even say he’s had a bit of success in his life.

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Re: CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2018, 09:18:28 pm »
I wonder if they've thought about what would happen if they continued to cover him, but did so objectively?   Naw.  I'm sure they haven't.
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Re: CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2018, 10:06:55 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on November 01, 2018, 09:18:28 pm
I wonder if they've thought about what would happen if they continued to cover him, but did so objectively?   Naw.  I'm sure they haven't.

Yup.   The point isn't that they cover Trump,  but that they are in the business of feeding the Trump-haters with the porn they crave.
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Re: CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2018, 03:48:23 am »
I wonder how many people who support Trump watch CNN just to see what hateful things they are saying now?

 :2popcorn: LOL!
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Re: CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2018, 03:52:22 am »
CNN President Jeff Zucker said his network's audience would dwindle if its news programming shifted away from covering President Trump.

Dwindle from 6 people Jeff?

BTW great job Jeff taking that cable channel fully into ratings Siberia. You're a GD genius!!!!
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Re: CNN boss: If we break away from Trump coverage 'the audience goes away'
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2018, 06:17:55 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on November 01, 2018, 09:18:28 pm
I wonder if they've thought about what would happen if they continued to cover him, but did so objectively?   Naw.  I'm sure they haven't.

LOL, no not likely.
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