Jeff Zucker Quotes
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I watch a ton of CNN.
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I've always thrived on challenges, both personally and professionally.
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In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take a side.
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I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.
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I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, which is what I think Vice's calling card has been, CNN's digital properties reach far more young men on a weekly basis than Vice does.
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I don't regret putting 'The Apprentice' on television.
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It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence.
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It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.
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CNBC is a very serious-minded financial news network, and what we've seen thus far from Fox appears to be not as investment-focused or financially focused, and that's good for us.
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I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
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Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a local newspaper, local radio or local television. But I think television in the aggregate is actually in very good shape.
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Everybody has an iPhone; everyone can be a reporter now. Everybody can tell a story from every part of the world. Why places like CNN matter is that it is still important to bring them together, put context around it, and explain it.
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Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience's part.
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The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.
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CNN is not a television network that has a website. CNN is a full-fledged media company.
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I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.
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If I was on Twitter, I'd probably get in trouble pretty quickly.
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It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.
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People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.
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The critics of Donald Trump are looking for people to blame for his rise. There are many people who are either surprised by his strength or don't like him and want to blame someone to explain why he has been this popular.
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I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'
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Anderson Cooper's on-air reaction to Bob Simon's death; Wolf Blitzer personalizing his experience in going back to Auschwitz where his grandparents lost their lives - I think that has all made our air more authentic.
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We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
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Do not be intimidated. Go where the story goes. Report the facts. Make sure you've got it right. And don't let things that the president says or that the White House does throw you off your game.