Jeff Zucker
In this week’s Confider, we reveal massive changes coming to CNN, the way Twitter quietly changed its rules during wartime, and the drama at ABC News and G/O Media.
Allison Gollust accused WarnerMedia of making “an attempt to retaliate against me and change the media narrative in the wake of their disastrous handling of the last two weeks.”
Plus, a look at how Jerry Falwell Jr. gave it up for Donald Trump, David Wallace-Wells on how we’ve passed a climate change point of no return, and more.
The Fox News host was happy to throw stones at the rival network from his own glass house.
During a meeting in D.C. on Wednesday, Kilar faced intense questioning from top reporters and anchors, many of whom were skeptical of his answers (or non-answers).
“No one thinks the punishment fits the crime,” one CNN executive told The Daily Beast of Zucker’s departure over an office romance.
The network reigned supreme at the end of the Trump era, but has fallen back to Earth. What happened?