"CNN Chief Trashes Fox News: 'Republican Party...Masquerading As News"

[Jamaal510]

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/11/jeff-zucker-fox-news_n_4579420.html?ref=topbar

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The chiefs of CNN and Fox News Channel are throwing shots at each other, each suggesting the other's network is essentially out of the news business.

Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes struck first, saying in an interview published this week that it was interesting for CNN "to throw in the towel and announce they're out of the news business." It was a reference to CNN President Jeff Zucker's efforts to expand CNN's offerings beyond breaking news.

"We happen to be in the business, as opposed to some other fair and balanced network," Zucker responded at a news conference on Friday.

He suggested that Ailes' remarks, published in the Hollywood Reporter, were silly and an attempt to deflect attention from "The Loudest Voice in the Room," a book on Ailes and Fox by New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman that is being published this month.

[kairos12]

1. If the Chief of CNN is just getting around to saying this

I would quote that great philosopher Bruce Willis in "Die Hard", and say "Welcome to the party pal!"

[House of Roberts]

2. Reliable Sources had Gabriel Sherman on today.

Promos for Piers Morgan say Sherman will be on that show also.

Following Sherman were Jeffery Berry and Sarah Sobieraj, who co-wrote 'The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility', which resulted in more Ailes and Fox bashing. I wasn’t too impressed with their characterization of liberals as being ‘mostly blacks and hispanics’, and more trusting of the mainstream media than the RWNJs.

I don't trust the mainstream media at all. I watch to get a heads-up on what the RWNJs will be saying the next day.

[craigmatic]

3. So in other words he only told the truth after ailes pissed him off. Typical

[Lint Head]

4. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

[NCLefty]

5. The only people that don't know this are the true koolaid drinkers on the right.

It's patently obvious to everyone else.