“CNN’s president, a media titan at the helm of a global news organization intensely covering the 2020 presidential election, has a longstanding personal rule against supporting politicians,” McClatchy reports.
“He’s broken it once — for Kamala Harris when she ran to become the first woman of color to hold the office of California attorney general a decade ago.”
Page Six: “A wild rumor flying around the TV industry is that CNN chief Jeff Zucker is eyeing a run for mayor of New York City.”
“The prospect — however ridiculous or remote — of Zucker becoming mayor would not sit well with Rudy Giuliani, who demanded Zucker apologize for ‘torturing’ President Trump with CNN’s coverage on alleged collusion.”
CNN President Jeff Zucker said he’s “still interested” in running for office, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Said Zucker: “I still harbor somewhere in my gut that I’m still very interested in politics.”
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“CNN will not give $5 million to charity to ensure Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump appears on the Republican debate set to air on the Time Warner-owned cable-news outlet on December 15,” Variety reports.
Said CNN chief Jeff Zucker: “We do not pay candidates to appear.”
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