Trump-donor billionaire John Malone insisted on Zucker's resignation
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Trump-donor billionaire John Malone insisted on Zucker's resignation
Jennifer Smith
Liberty Media billionaire John Malone, who has made no secret of his dislike of
CNN under Zucker's leadership, i...
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Are the dominoes falling? FB lost $30+ Billion last week and now CNN(Clinton
News Network) is bought by Trump supporter!
CNN is also coming off a contentious period where Trump frequently referred to
the network as 'fake news.'
CNN on-air personnel under Zucker, like chief domestic correspondent and pundit
Acosta, have become much more opinionated and that hasn't always been popular.
'It's interesting to see if that culture is going to shift with new
leadership,' said Jennifer Thomas, a Howard University journalism professor who
worked at CNN as a producer in the 2000s.
Some people, like Thomas, have called for a reset. One is influential cable
executive John Malone, a top stockholder in Discovery, said on CNBC in November
'I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started
with.'
Is this the end of CNN's left-wing bias? Billionaire Trump donor, who is the
largest shareholder of the network's new owner Discovery, wants to restore it
to impartiality - and INSISTED on Jeff Zucker's departure after his affair was
exposed
- John Malone is chairman of Liberty Media, Discovery's largest shareholder
- He previously donated $250,000 to Trump's inauguration, and told of
wanting to restore CNN to impartial journalism after years of left-wing bias
- After CNN chief Jeff Zucker's relationship with colleague Allison Gollust
was revealed, Malone reportedly made it clear policies must be followed
- CNN will be folded into Discovery as part of a $43billion deal
- Zucker was due to stay on in some capacity and even take a bigger role at
Discovery, but now has been cast out
- AT&T boss John Stankey was told of the affair from WarnerMedia CEO Jason
Kilar - with whom Zucker has always had a frosty relationship
- CNN is now investigating if Zucker had an inappropriate relationship with
Andrew Cuomo, former Governor of New York
- A source tells Rolling Stone that Gollust and Zucker were also advising
Cuomo at the start of the pandemic - like Chris was fired for doing
CNN's left-wing bias may become a thing of the past when it is spun off to
Discovery later this year, with the largest shareholder of the network's new
owners eager to restore it to impartiality.
John Malone, a billionaire Trump donor, is the CEO of Liberty Media,
Discovery's largest shareholder. He retains a 25 percent voting share in
Discovery, which will take control of WarnerMedia and its assets - including
CNN - later this year.
With Jeff Zucker gone, that seems more likely than ever.
A true lover of wisdom has hands too busy to hold on to anything! He learns by
doing and every pebble in the path becomes her teacher! Oink
