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The Muckrake Political Podcast

Jeff Zucker Steps Down From CNN

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This is an abbreviated version of our weekly Patreon show. To access the full-episode and support the pod, head on over to http://www.patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss how responsible Jeff Zucker was for the downfall of our modern media coverage.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Munkerig podcast for our Patreon

0:06.9

subscribers. Thank you as always for your support. If you were listening to this into a preview,

0:11.0

go over to patreon.com slash Munkrack Podcast. We depend on that support. And the reason that we

0:16.6

depend on that support is because we are an independent media venture unlike CNN which is a corporate

0:24.7

run Leviathan that has done a lot of things that we need to discuss today because one Jeff

0:34.1

Zucker the head at CNN has announced that he is stepping down immediately from his post

0:41.3

following a strange rollout of a scandal, all that stuff. Just, we needed to talk today about the

0:51.4

damage that he has done to the United States of America in general.

0:56.1

But before we get to that, Nick, what is your initial reaction to this that has come out today?

1:03.0

My initial reaction is that, you know, love takes many forms and who are we to get in the way

1:07.5

of how that manifests itself, right? I mean, it's a pheromones, Jared.

1:13.6

I don't, you about called me Jeff there.

1:16.2

Yeah.

1:17.1

I don't even know what I'm talking about.

1:18.8

I don't care what he did.

1:20.9

I'll be honest.

1:21.8

If he didn't hurt anybody,

1:22.9

if there was some sort of, how do we put it?

1:34.2

If there was some sort of nepotism, if there was some sort of, how do we put it, if there was some sort of nepotism, if there was some sort of discrimination, if there was some sort of whatever, that's fine.

1:36.6

I'm glad that he's resigning.

1:38.0

I'm glad that he's leaving.

1:43.7

I assume, by the way, that he'll have a CEO job before March comes, right?

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