The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta Warns Brian Stelter: ‘I Would Be Nervous’ If I Was at CNN Following Zucker’s Ouster
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AULETTA: “Well, of course. I mean, I think what Malone just said, the clip you played, was comical. It’s a joke. It’s not real and he’s wrong. If you listened to what Zaslav told me in that public forum in November, he disagrees with Malone. Now, Malone is his business mentor and an important shareholder. Will Dave Zaslav go off on the Malone (ph) reservation about this? He says basically — what he said in November was that he would [indecipherable] question, I don’t know the answer to that. If I was at CNN and I was an employee and I loved working under Jeff Zucker for understandable reasons, I would be concerned. There’s no question that David Zaslav, as he said to me in November at a public forum, believes that there’s too much commentary on CNN. And if you watch CNN, the anchors are much more animated with opinions than they were when Ted Turner started the network —”
STELTER: “True.”
AULETTA: “— back some three decades ago. And so, I would — I would be a little nervous if I was at CNN, yes.”
