Jeff Zucker, CEO, CNN Worldwide

By Tim Graham, May 20, 2014

Last week, Jake Tapper of CNN refused to guess how CNN would cover the House select committee on Benghazi’s hearings. It was above his pay grade.

Capital New York reports that CNN president Jeff Zucker snottily sounded off to New York Times TV reporter Bill Carter at an awards dinner against any complaining conservatives. He said his network would not be “shamed into it” by “others” and their “temper tantrums” demanding coverage:

"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," he said. "If it's of real news value, we'll cover it." But Zucker was "incredibly comfortable" with having no shame over-covering the Malaysian Jet mystery -- something that caused disgust all over the spectrum of news consumers. CNN beat that dead horse into a smelly mist.

Asked whether he considered his channel's ratings-elevating coverage of the event was ever excessive, Zucker said, "If I take a step back from our coverage of the Malaysian plane's disappearance, I'm incredibly comfortable with it. I believed early on, right from the start, that it was an enormously important story: an American-made Boeing jet liner, with Rolls Royce engines with 239 people, disappears into thin air...That's why we devoted the resources that we did to it."

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