CNN CEO Caught ‘Pumping out Propaganda'
An undercover recording of a CNN editorial phone call featured the network’s president, Jeff Zucker, telling staffers to stay focused on covering impeachment of President Trump at the expense of other important news.
Jeff Zucker tells top news executives to focus solely on impeachment even at the expense of other important news!
“I don’t care about the MSNBC event, OK? I don’t care about them. Let’s just stay very focused on impeachment,” a person identified as Zucker says in the recording. “We shouldn’t just pretend, oh, this is going one way. And so all of these moves are toward impeachment.”
Zucker allegedly runs the daily meeting “with an iron fist” aimed directly at “hammering Trump” or “Republicans in general.”
Zucker is also heard telling staff to call out Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and encouraging CNN on-air personalities to attack Fox News.
In the clip, Cary Poarch - the whistleblower, said he decided to wear a hidden camera because of CNN's perceived bias, and that he secretly recorded Zucker’s 9 a.m. rundown conference call because the network was “pumping out propaganda.”
“It’s basically me wanting the news to be what they used to be -- news -- and not infotainment or a game show or chasing the ratings,” Poarch told O’Keefe. “CNN purports it to be facts first and that’s clearly not the case.
The video also showed someone identified as a CNN media coordinator Nick Neville being secretly recorded.
“Jeff Zucker, basically the president of CNN, has a personal vendetta against Trump… it’s not gonna be positive for Trump. Zucker hates him. He’s going to be negative,” the person identified as Neville said in the highly edited video.
The same person also said that many CNN employees want to err on the side of “journalistic integrity” but “big boss” Zucker “f----ing tell you what to do." "You have to like… to a certain extent, you have to follow his verdict,” the man said. “He’s like had an on-going feud with Trump…
Another alleged CNN employee, identified as media coordinator Christian Sierra, said that “everyone at the network” complains about the anti-Trump tone.
"They hate covering Trump all day," he said