CNN’s high media reporter, Brian Stelter, lashed out on the community’s critics — whilst he failed to handle colleagues’ criticism over his failure to report on the romantic affair that led to his former boss Jeff Zucker’s bombshell ouster final week.
Critics have focused Stelter for failing to show Zucker’s relationship with one other senior government, Allison Gollust. A minimum of one CNN insider has referred to as for Stelter to be fired for lacking the story on the connection — which has been described as an “open secret” amongst staff for years.
Stelter has but to handle the criticism directed at his reporting, however he devoted a significant chunk of his present “Dependable Sources” on Sunday to defending the community’s journalism, asserting CNN is “a lot greater than any single particular person” and extra targeted on information than opinion protection.
“The individuals who say we’re missing journalism, that we’ve turn out to be an ‘all discuss’ channel, that we’ve run off and we’re all opinions on a regular basis, that Jeff Zucker led us astray — these folks aren’t watching CNN,” Stelter stated. “They’re watching complaints about CNN on different channels that don’t know what they’re speaking about.”
That’s even if half of CNN’s 18 hours of dwell programming every day — together with all of its primetime lineup — consists of reveals which can be primarily targeted on opinion.
The odd rant got here simply days after Zucker abruptly resigned as CNN’s president after admitting he didn't correctly disclose his relationship with Gollust. Shortly after the connection went public, a CNN insider argued the community “must step up and hearth Brian Stelter” for lacking the story.
“He's allegedly our high media reporter — but he didn't report on the news that everybody within the workplace knew,” the insider stated, in keeping with the Day by day Mail. “And if he desires to say he didn’t know, he's really horrible at his job.”
An unnamed cable information veteran informed the outlet that Stelter “ought to be calling his agent to begin searching for one other job.”
“He’s been Jeff Zucker’s water boy for years and nobody believes he didn’t learn about all of this,” the media veteran stated.
Sources informed The Put up that Zucker’s relationship with Gollust was the “worst-kept secret in TV.”
Present and former CNN staffers, together with ex-anchor Soledad O’Brien, have described the connection between Zucker and Gollust as an “open secret” courting again years.
In the meantime, Stelter described Zucker’s exit on Sunday as “the ugliest shakeup at CNN because the days Ted Turner was strolling the halls.”
Stelter has linked Zucker’s determination to resign to CNN and its guardian WarnerMedia’s ongoing authorized battle with fired former anchor Chris Cuomo, who was dismissed after helping his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in his response to allegations of sexual misconduct whereas in workplace. Cuomo resigned as governor final 12 months as he confronted mounting political stress.
Stelter described the hyperlinks between Cuomo’s resignation as governor and Zucker’s exit at CNN as “virtually Shakespearean.”
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