NY Times had a front page story, and it isn't kind to CNN, or for that matter the cable

[still_one]

news industry. It is a long article, and the link is below, but it encapsulates the thoughts of Les Moonves, the CBS head when he said:

"it may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS"

As some have commented, it is the gift that keeps on giving. If you can make the racist, sexist, xenophobe, President by your endless source of entertainment for the masses, it will be great television for everybody, and make CNN richer for it at the same time.

Paddy Chayefsky's Network is a reality, and has been so for some time now

"Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/magazine/cnn-had-a-problem-donald-trump-solved-it.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[underpants]

1. Bookmarking

Thanks

[Pathwalker]

2. Many in the press are on the Russian's side, and may even be

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Russian moles. Don the Con didn't get where he is without their help. On a daily basis.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. That is so true.

When I was younger,it was called Coat Tailing.

[mopinko]

19. post turtle.

hmmmmm.

[malaise]

3. MUST READ

Hacks are hacks

[BeckyDem]

5. Take down done to perfection.

There are other enablers out there for Trump in the media but that doesn't detract from what is needed here and the writer delivers a stiletto prong to CNN.

Zucker's own words spell out his ratings agenda and the notion of journalism, what it means is not what they're about. The forecast on this subject does not look good. How much more disgraceful can it become?

[Lucinda]

6. Heading out but bookmarking and kicking.

Thanks - will read asap!

[Scruffy1]

7. Just another reason not watch it.

[still_one]

8. but the choreography was so well done, right on cue

[llmart]

9. Yes, and let us never forget...

that even though CNN is on the anti-Trump train now, they helped created this awful scenario we are now living in AND, even more importantly, once the country has gone down this path I doubt there'll be going back to a time when we had real journalists.

Life in our country is all about entertainment anyway.

[Thew]

10. Also on the front page

In another front page article, they call the kettle black, and probably another story or two on Clinton emails or Foundation...


Not quite over it yet....

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. This was all clear, and a big reason we cut the TV 10 years ago.

[world wide wally]

12. Impeachment hearings..... yuuuuge ratings!

[FreeStateDemocrat]

13. I have boycotted all televised news since the election and this is only one of the reasons. FUCK'EM!

It ain't news it's entertainment and the facts are not included in the show.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Just got done reading the whole thing

Thanks for the heads-up! The interesting irony here is that we are seeing the next generation of "the news be damned" with Zucker (at age 51) taking up the mantle from people like Moonves (67), Ailes (76)/Rupert Murdoch (86).

[still_one]

18. Yup, it is long, and your absolutely right, paddy chayefsky's Network called this decades ago

[GusBob]

15. FFS ushered in reality TV and now news as entertainment

So glad I put down the remote 14 years gone by now

[sharedvalues]

16. K&R. Key detail "Zucker called Trump". Those two are close. Vomit.

[sharedvalues]

17. NYC or DC protests at CNN offices, anyone? Message me.