Chris Cuomo Reportedly Offered $9 Million and Jeff Zucker's Butt to Shut up and Go Away but Will It Be Enough?
By streiff | Feb 04, 2022 2:00 PM ET
On Wednesday, CNN’s Grand Poobah Jeff Zucker was fired over a secret adulterous affair he carried on with a subordinate but that everyone knew about (It’s Always an Open Secret in the Media). The relationship began 25 years ago but changed due to COVID (CNN’s Jeff Zucker Resigns After Revelations of an Inappropriate Workplace Relationship), or so we’re told without any real insight into what that might mean in terrestrial terms.
For reasons that are unclear to me, WarnerMedia dispatched its CEO Jason Kilar to try to smooth the ruffled feathers and unwind the twisted knickers of the collection of incompetents, misfits, perverts, and abject losers that CNN employs as its public face. In my view, WarnerMedia should have struck while the iron was hot and sent most of their “talent” to the unemployment line along with Zucker rather than paying their salaries listening to them snivel, but that’s just me. During this corporate-sponsored crying jag, Jake Tapper may have cut to the bottom line issue.
“Jason, if you could address the perception that Chris Cuomo gets fired by CNN, Chris Cuomo hires a high-powered lawyer who has a scorched-earth policy, who then makes it very clear to the world that unless Jeff gives Chris Cuomo his money, they’re going to blow the place up. Stuff starts getting leaked to gossip websites about Jeff and Allison… and then weeks later, Jeff comes forward, discloses this and resigns—not willingly. An outside observer might say, ‘Wow, it looks like Chris Cuomo succeeded. He threatened, Jeff said we don’t negotiate with terrorists, and he blew the place up.’ How do we get past that perception, that this is the bad guy winning?”
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