Should we celebrate Jeff Zucker's firing from CNN? pic.twitter.com/mb2kRWJm0g
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 3, 2022
You can have good leaders and you can have bad leaders, but too often today we have people with the title of leadership who are merely scared rabbits wearing a disguise, and they tend to be the worst “leaders” of all.
Of course, in no way would I condone the sort of behavior Zucker and so many others with organizational power routinely display. I saw it dozens of times in my corporate law department career, and it often is devastating for the victims of these sexual predators, not to mention expensive for the employer. But it angers me greatly that filth like Zucker, Andrew Cuomo and their ilk usually are allowed to skate for the really despicable things they have done, such as murdering thousands of elderly residents of nursing homes, or using a “news” network to falsely smear and overtly attempt to destroy a sitting President, or condoning for political purposes the intentional destruction of large areas of major cities. That they are brought down at all is a good thing, but for the wrong reasons.
Frank is quite right. He was fired for PR purposes. The question of moral turpitude never entered the minds of the powers at CNN.
CNN who?
It bothers me also to no end the double standard that allows these liberal SOBs to escape justice with the evil they do. However, as my beautiful convert wife always says “God sees everything and will have the last word”. I certainly believe this too, I just lack her calm attitude about it. I want to see retribution. I know that’s probably sinful. I’m trying to work on that.
He proved that you can underestimate the viewer, so there’s that.
“CNN who?” It’s Concourse News Network, that channel they play in airports.
One could say that Zucker took a damaged, corrupted organization and made it insupportably awful. You cannot fix CNN as it’s brand is trashed. The only thing to do is to dismiss every salaried employee who generated the network’s editorial matter and dismiss everyone to whom they reporter. Start with your hourly staff and your salaried support staff and rebuild from there. And bloody change the name while you’re at it.
Note, Zucker was the satrap of people higher up. He could have been fired at any time for the network’s poor performance. Someone made a decision some years back that the optimal path was to pander to the worst sort of street-level Democrat rather than run a news and commentary network. Everyone who generated the editorial content is someone who was content to work at a grotesque agitprop organization. That’s why they all need to be fired. The incestuous relationship between CNN and the Cuomos is just an indicator that it was not an organization engaged in news reportage.
Zucker, by the way, has been a media executive for decades. He wasn’t an unknown quantity when he was put in charge of the network.
Your foundational problem is the secular decline in the quality of human being we produce in this country. Some of our institutions are run by the sort Fr. Paul Shaughnessy described – by individuals whose imperative is to avoid embarrassing publicity, not sanction bad behavior. Some are run by sociopaths.