I think basically he did a very great service to the Nation, and world – by showing the MSM is 100% owned by elites with agendas, and everything they say is as likely to be a lie and misleading, as it is to be true.
His extreme bias turned the corner to complete propaganda, he made the words ‘Fake News’ become part of the language. Now you do not have to be a cynic to doubt the MSM, everyone mistrusts it thanks to this vile man.
Scott S
2 years ago
How many presenters and staff at CNN are involved in sex scandals?? I’ve lost count.
Elon Musk said he wasn’t perverted enough to appear on CNN.
Sean Penley
2 years ago
As I saw someone post on another forum when this story came out, it seems that Toobin is the only person at CNN keeping his hands to himself.
Seriously, though, CNN has long had a bias of some form. Ted Turner made that amply obvious when Fox News first began to air. They just tried to be subtle about it in the early years, you really wouldn’t catch it unless it was a story you knew something about yourself. In the early 2000s they began to let the subtlety drop and openly give better coverage to the left. Zucker’s big change was to make them a straight-up propaganda arm of the Dem party. And in that role they were much more dramatic than Fox News. Shortly after the 2016 election someone actually did a rollup of, I believe, about 6-8 months worth of headlines from the major news outlets about the main presidential candidates. Fox News actually had a majority of its stories about Trump being negative, I want to say the percentage was somewhere in the ’70s. CNN was around 98% negative. And during the 2020 presidential debates the session hosted by a Fox presenter (who has since jumped ship, I should note) was very visibly anti-Trump. The main point is that even Fox News was actually being very anti-Trump even in 2016, more so than would be normal for a ‘fair and balanced’ network, but the fact they weren’t at CNN’s own 98% negative was apparently enough to make the network his cheerleader. Which says a lot about the bias of the media at large: if you only agree with them roughly 70% of the time, you are an extremist for the other side.
You are right. Fox has lost lots of right leaning viewers in the last years because Fox doesn’t play for the Republican team. The 6pm national news on Fox is the most trustworthy news source for that very reason.
Andrea X
2 years ago
Can you still say “impish”?
(As I don’t get/watch CNN I cannot comment on the rest).
Well ‘impi’ is the word for a collective of Zulu soldiers, so he may be calling him particularly ferocious – and an ‘imp’ is one of those little demons who serve the Devil, or some mischievous kind of little elf thing, so he could be saying he is a little troublemaker instead.
I think he sailed too close to the wind on this one, and deserves some really angry and woke e-mails.
Jonathan Ellman
2 years ago
I suppose his actions spawned, or at least gave a boost to, the IDW so maybe we should be grateful.
Bret Larson
2 years ago
The news is to current society what the circus was to the Roman world. And the blood is real.
Once you start selling narrative and dont care about fact or balance, how do you come back from that?
Hardee Hodges
2 years ago
Zucker created the agenda that his presenters had to follow. Many disagreed with the daily exhortation but were silenced. Given CNN becoming a limb of the DNC, as Biden became unpopular, CNN’s fortunes crumbled. Ted Turner lamented the constant political advocacy thinking it would diminish his creation, and it has. Post Zucker we shall see if they can recover from his toxic approach to news.
With the rabbit hutches of higher education turning out indoctrinated snowflakes bound for journalism in such high numbers, there is little chance the news media will regain even a slice of its former trust.
Jerry Jay Carroll
2 years ago
All of the above can be said about MSNBC and the alphabet networks.
I think basically he did a very great service to the Nation, and world – by showing the MSM is 100% owned by elites with agendas, and everything they say is as likely to be a lie and misleading, as it is to be true.
His extreme bias turned the corner to complete propaganda, he made the words ‘Fake News’ become part of the language. Now you do not have to be a cynic to doubt the MSM, everyone mistrusts it thanks to this vile man.
How many presenters and staff at CNN are involved in sex scandals?? I’ve lost count.
At this point it’d be quicker to list the staff not involved in sex scandals
Elon Musk said he wasn’t perverted enough to appear on CNN.
As I saw someone post on another forum when this story came out, it seems that Toobin is the only person at CNN keeping his hands to himself.
Seriously, though, CNN has long had a bias of some form. Ted Turner made that amply obvious when Fox News first began to air. They just tried to be subtle about it in the early years, you really wouldn’t catch it unless it was a story you knew something about yourself. In the early 2000s they began to let the subtlety drop and openly give better coverage to the left. Zucker’s big change was to make them a straight-up propaganda arm of the Dem party. And in that role they were much more dramatic than Fox News. Shortly after the 2016 election someone actually did a rollup of, I believe, about 6-8 months worth of headlines from the major news outlets about the main presidential candidates. Fox News actually had a majority of its stories about Trump being negative, I want to say the percentage was somewhere in the ’70s. CNN was around 98% negative. And during the 2020 presidential debates the session hosted by a Fox presenter (who has since jumped ship, I should note) was very visibly anti-Trump. The main point is that even Fox News was actually being very anti-Trump even in 2016, more so than would be normal for a ‘fair and balanced’ network, but the fact they weren’t at CNN’s own 98% negative was apparently enough to make the network his cheerleader. Which says a lot about the bias of the media at large: if you only agree with them roughly 70% of the time, you are an extremist for the other side.
You are right. Fox has lost lots of right leaning viewers in the last years because Fox doesn’t play for the Republican team. The 6pm national news on Fox is the most trustworthy news source for that very reason.
Can you still say “impish”?
(As I don’t get/watch CNN I cannot comment on the rest).
Well ‘impi’ is the word for a collective of Zulu soldiers, so he may be calling him particularly ferocious – and an ‘imp’ is one of those little demons who serve the Devil, or some mischievous kind of little elf thing, so he could be saying he is a little troublemaker instead.
I think he sailed too close to the wind on this one, and deserves some really angry and woke e-mails.
I suppose his actions spawned, or at least gave a boost to, the IDW so maybe we should be grateful.
The news is to current society what the circus was to the Roman world. And the blood is real.
Once you start selling narrative and dont care about fact or balance, how do you come back from that?
Zucker created the agenda that his presenters had to follow. Many disagreed with the daily exhortation but were silenced. Given CNN becoming a limb of the DNC, as Biden became unpopular, CNN’s fortunes crumbled. Ted Turner lamented the constant political advocacy thinking it would diminish his creation, and it has. Post Zucker we shall see if they can recover from his toxic approach to news.
With the rabbit hutches of higher education turning out indoctrinated snowflakes bound for journalism in such high numbers, there is little chance the news media will regain even a slice of its former trust.
All of the above can be said about MSNBC and the alphabet networks.