Not after a handicap mauling from Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck:
Conservative firebrands Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck took to the airwaves to ridicule CNN boss Jeff Zucker for his recent remarks concerning his decision to push climate change stories despite viewer disinterest, as well as an assertion that he won’t be "shamed" into Benghazi coverage.
"Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way," Zucker said Monday. ""When we do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience's part."
Why does it deserve more attention, Zuck? Number one, it's bullbleep; number two, your intended audience knows it's bullbleep, which is why you're drawing such a small audience; and number three, you inadvertently pinpointed your very problem with the phrase "that we all talk about". Who is "we," Zuck? Why, of course, it's all the fellow commie-lib Obama idolators who co-habit that little bubble of pagan extremist existential cloture with you. You know, what you pusbags self-congratulatorily call "the 'reality-based community'". You think it matters because your godless religion tells you it does, and requires you to reduce everybody else outside your little bubble - never you guys, but the hoi palloi zombie mall-lurchers who elected and re-elected your demigod - to a state of primitivism, disease, pestilence, filth, poverty, and squalor. The Tea Party, of course, will serve as their food supply for as long as it lasts. Because, as we're all required to know, anthropophagy is very "progressive".
Meanwhile, your targeted (literally) audience persists in stubbornly seeing the ruins of the former American engine of prosperity and all the jobs the can't get because your demigod is more interested in promoting depressionary economic policies, like "climate change," as the biggest crisis facing the nation. Pity; if only they had your "enlightened" vision, they might come to realize and appreciate cannibalism, huh?
[Apologies, not trying to short-shrift Beck, but Blogger won't embed any other video mode but YouTube, so I'll have to lift the segment in text from the Newsmax story. If they have a problem with it, they can take it up with Google]
"We’re not going to be shamed into it by others who have political beliefs that want to try to have temper tantrums to shame other news organizations into covering something," Zucker told the New York Times, according to Mediaite. "If it’s of real news value, we’ll cover it."
Beck and [Pat Gray] mocked Zucker’s news judgment, particularly CNN’s 24/7 coverage of the missing the Malaysian airliner.
"Let’s find out about the spatial distortion brought on by a quantum singularity on CNN," [Pat Gray] ribbed. "Stick to your guns, Jeff. Don’t do real news. Don’t let people goad you into real news. "
Beck chimed in: "Don’t look into things that might make you uncomfortable or cause you any kind of discomfort in your political life or business life. You go right to a foreign airliner that’s gone … 60 days ago."
He facetiously suggests that perhaps the network would cover Benghazi if the missing airliner crashed into the U.S. compound there....
"Jeff, we’ve seen your network and your ratings. There’s no shame left."
Not much to add here, actually. Other than that a new dynamic duo is on its way up. And we're starting out at a higher level than Jeff Zucker and CNN have ever dreamed of.
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