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CNN Boss and Lover Had ‘Inappropriately’ Deep Ties to Disgraced Gov. Cuomo

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CNN boss Jeff Zucker and his paramour Allison Gollust had an inappropriately close friendship with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — personally calling him to do news segments with his brother Chris Cuomo and even coaching him on what to say during his infamous COVID briefings, The Post has learned.

Gollust and Zucker — the latter of whom dramatically quit CNN Wednesday after their affair was exposed — also gave Andrew Cuomo endless positive coverage because of their relationship, sources said.

“While those 11:30 a.m. daily briefings by Andrew were across every network, they boosted ratings in a poorly performing slot for CNN,” one source said.

According to a source to Cuomo, “Zucker and Gollust even advised Andrew what to say — how to respond and particularly how to hit back at [President Donald] Trump to make it more compelling TV.

“No network head should be coaching an elected official,” the source added. “It’s absolutely the antithesis of CNN’s standards of business.” (Read more from “CNN Boss and Lover Had ‘Inappropriately’ Deep Ties to Disgraced Gov. Cuomo” HERE)

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Who’s Next? CNN Insiders Want Stelter Fired Over Zucker-Gollust Coverup

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The calls to fire CNN Misinformation Maven Brian Stelter are coming from inside the house.

“The network needs to step up and fire Brian Stelter,” a CNN insider told the Daily Mail. “He is allegedly our top media reporter – yet he failed to report on the scoop that everyone in the office knew. And if he wants to say he didn’t know, he is truly terrible at his job.”

A cable news veteran, who wishes not to be named, spoke of the close relationship between Stelter and Zucker.

‘Brian Stelter should be calling his agent to start looking for another job,’ they said. ‘He’s been Jeff Zucker’s water boy for years and no one believes he didn’t know about all of this.’

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‘He’s been sitting on his moral high horse doing Jeff’s bidding and ripping Fox and every other media outlet that Jeff tells him to while his ratings crash and burn. Where was he on the biggest story at his own network after chastising everyone else?’

(Read more from “Who’s Next? CNN Insiders Want Stelter Fired Over Zucker-Gollust Coverup” HERE)

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Trump Celebrates ‘World-Class Sleazebag’ CNN President’s Resignation; Who Is the CNN Executive in a Secret Relationship With Jeff Zucker?

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By New York Post. Former President Donald Trump celebrated CNN CEO Jeff Zucker’s resignation Wednesday and called the newly unemployed cable honcho a “world-class sleazebag.”

“Jeff Zucker, a world-class sleazebag who has headed ratings and real-news-challenged CNN for far too long, has been terminated for numerous reasons, but predominantly because CNN has lost its way with viewers and everybody else,” Trump said in an emailed statement.

“Now is a chance to put Fake News in the backseat because there may not be anything more important than straightening out the horrendous LameStream Media in our Country, and in the case of CNN, throughout the World. Jeff Zucker is gone — congratulations to all!” . . .

Zucker frequently sparred with Trump during his presidency, which helped the behind-the-scenes executive become a household name — but once upon a time, the two had a cozier relationship.

As president of NBC Entertainment, Zucker was the executive who green-lit Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice.” (Read more from “Trump Celebrates ‘World-Class Sleazebag’ CNN President’s Resignation” HERE)

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Who Is the CNN Executive in a Secret Relationship With Jeff Zucker?

By New York Post. The CNN executive who’s allegedly been in a secret relationship with Jeff Zucker for years is a longtime public relations specialist who’s spent her career working in television. . .

Gollust, 49, claimed she and Zucker had long been friends but their relationship changed amid the pandemic — a claim CNN insiders blasted as a “bold faced lie.” . . .

Gollust got her start as a news anchor, reporter and producer in Denver before moving to the Big Apple and hitting it big with NBC News, according to her bio on CNN.

She started at the network’s corporate communications office in 1996 and the following year, was named senior publicist for “Today.”

At the time, Zucker was the executive producer of the ratings juggernaut and the two worked hand-in-hand to bring attention to the show, Katie Couric wrote in her blistering tell-all “Going There.” (Read more from “Who Is the CNN Executive in a Secret Relationship With Jeff Zucker?” HERE)

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Why Now? *Everyone* Knew CNN President Had Relationship With Subordinate

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Former CNN president Jeff Zucker’s romantic relationship with the network’s chief marketing officer, Allison Gollust, was apparently well-known to some in the media, according to a report.

New York magazine reports:

Zucker and Gollust’s relationship was one of the biggest open secrets in media. CNN staffers awkwardly navigated the pairing, since every time they dealt with her, they were keenly aware that she was involved with the boss. They were rolling their eyes at Gollust’s own statement that said “recently, our relationship changed during Covid.” It had been going on for much longer: Page Six would wink at it from time to time, and the two have known each other since they worked together at NBC decades ago.

Zucker on Wednesday morning announced he was stepping down from CNN after failing to disclose a relationship with a Gollust. (Read more from “Why Now? *Everyone* Knew CNN President Had Relationship With Subordinate” HERE)

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Dear Diary: CNN’s Acosta Says Virginia Under Youngkin ‘a Soviet-Style Police State’

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CNN “Democracy in Peril” host Jim Acosta on Tuesday reacted to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) setting up a tip line for parents to report the teaching of “inherently divisive” rhetoric such as Critical Race Theory.

Acosta noted that the GOP had recently been engaging in a culture war, which he warned “could be weakening our democracy.” He argued Youngkin went from “campaigning in a fleece vest” to running “a Soviet-style police state.” . . .

“You know, I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia. He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest — not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington,” he added. (Read more from “Dear Diary: CNN’s Acosta Says Virginia Under Youngkin ‘a Soviet-Style Police State’” HERE)

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Scandal-Ridden CNN Sees Ratings Dive by 90% After 2021 Coverage

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CNN’s ratings took a nosedive by a massive 90 percent both overall and in the all-important demographic coveted by advertisers in the first week of the new year.

The Jeff Zucker-led cable news network averaged just 548,000 viewers during the week of Jan. 3 — a major drop from the nearly 2.7 million viewers for the same week in 2021, according to Nielsen ratings.

The year-ago ratings were jolted by the left-leaning network’s coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, which resulted in CNN having its most-watched day since Ted Turner launched the news outlet in 1980.

But on the one-year anniversary of the attacks, viewers flipped over to CNN’s right-wing rival, Fox News, which topped the ratings for coverage of the event.

CNN has been plagued by a cascade of high-profile scandals, most notably the firing of its primetime star Chris Cuomo after the anchor was found to be secretly aiding the defense of his embattled older brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over sexual harassment allegations that resulted in his resignation. (Read more from “Scandal-Ridden CNN Sees Ratings Dive by 90% After 2021 Coverage” HERE)

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This Is CNN: ‘Penalize’ Unvaccinated Americans (VIDEO)

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NYU professor of bioethics Arthur Caplan, a guest on CNN Wednesday, said it is time to “shame” and “blame” unvaccinated Americans, adding that society should “penalize” them in a variety of ways, including higher hospital bills and insurance premiums.

“By and large, if you’re vaccinated and boosted, even if you get infected, you’re going to be fine. You’re going to be fine here. It’s the unvaccinated who are going to be hurt so why should anyone who is boosted bother at this point to do anything that makes the unvaccinated more safe?” CNN’s John Berman asked.

“I want us to act as a community. I want us to act as a team. We’re fighting a war and need all hands on deck. I don’t want to reject those who still haven’t done the right thing. I’ll condemn them. I’ll shame them. I’ll blame them, but I don’t want to exclude them,” Caplan replied, before detailing his desire to “penalize” unvaccinated Americans and implement more coercive tactics to corner them into getting the shot.

Caplan continued (emphasis added):

They’ve got to come around. Were not going to win this war — we’re going to be talking about COVID this time next year if we don’t get more people to do the right thing. So we can’t write them off. We can penalize them more. We can say you will have to pay more on your hospital bill. You can’t get life insurance or disability insurance at affordable rates if you aren’t vaccinated. Those companies should not treat us as equals in terms of what the financial burdens are that that disease imposes.

(Read more from “This Is CNN: ‘Penalize’ Unvaccinated Americans” HERE)

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WATCH: CNN Anchor Engages in Vulgar Conversation During Live NYE Coverage

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CNN anchor Don Lemon spoke about “broke d–k” during the network’s New Year’s Eve coverage when talking to comedian Dulce Sloan about resolutions for the new year.

Live from New Orleans, Lemon asked Sloan what her New Year’s resolutions were, to which the comedian explained that her resolution for 2022 was to not have anymore “broke d–k.”

Lemon, appearing confused, asked for clarification, asking Sloan, “No more what?”

“No more broke d–k,” Sloan repeated before Lemon removed his earpiece to ensure he was hearing her correctly.

[Warning: video contains explicit language.]

(Read more from “WATCH: CNN Anchor Engages in Vulgar Conversation During Live NYE Coverage” HERE)

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CNN Producer Resigns After Allegedly Soliciting Photos of Underage Girls

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Rick Saleeby, a producer for CNN’s Jake Tapper has resigned, Project Veritas announced on Wednesday. Project Veritas, Leah reported earlier this month, released a project detailing that a CNN producer was fantasizing about sexual acts with his fiancée’s 14-year-old daughter. The producer’s fiancée, Janine Bonanni, said that Saleeby solicited her daughter for photos as well.

The report from Project Veritas also noted that Virginia’s Fairfax County police have investigated Saleeby and taken some of his property. “When confronted by a Project Veritas reporter early in the week outside of his court appearance, Saleeby refused to answer questions about his official status with CNN,” it also indicated.

(Read more from “CNN Producer Resigns After Allegedly Soliciting Photos of Underage Girls” HERE)

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Police: Another CNN Producer Is Under Investigation by Child Exploitation Squad

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Fairfax County police confirmed Tuesday that Rick Saleeby, senior producer for CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, is under investigation by the department’s Child Exploitation Squad.

Saleeby’s investigation comes after Project Veritas revealed video and text messages on December 15 that allegedly show him fantasizing about sex acts with his former fiancé’s underaged daughter.

Project Veritas revealed Saleeby’s information two days after their initial report on December 17.

Fairfax County police confirmed Saleeby’s investigation on Tuesday after Project Veritas investigators confronted Saleeby following a court appearance. Saleeby appeared in court to respond to a protective order placed against him by his former fiancé. (Read more from “Police: Another CNN Producer Is Under Investigation by Child Exploitation Squad” HERE)

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