OH, I'M SO UPSET - MY PILLS, GET ME MY PILLS – AT 9:03 A.M. ET:  Jeff Zucker, who runs CNN, feels that President Trump is treating him unfairly.  There is pain.  There is anguish.  There are falsely heroic words.  That cruel president!  From The Hill: 

CNN President Jeff Zucker on Wednesday said President Trump is trying to bully the news network, but added that he won't let Trump "intimidate" his employees.

“My job is to remind everyone that they need to stay focused doing their job,” Zucker told The New York Times Wednesday. “He’s trying to bully us, and we’re not going to let him intimidate us. You can’t lose your confidence and let that change the way you conduct yourselves.”

That is complete garbage.  Zucker doesn't understand what CNN's job is – to report the news without fear or favor.  He thinks it's job is to destroy Trump and build ratings by shouting "Scandal!"  Those ratings are now plunging. 

When asked by the Times why Trump had hit his network, Zucker said the president's preferred medium is television.

“Television is his preferred medium,” Zucker said. “And he knows our viewers can be swayed because they’re not watching Fox or MSNBC” — networks with an ideological bent in prime time."

And CNN doesn't have an ideological bent?  Does he watch his own network?  Or is he watching game shows?

Zucker's interview with the Times comes as Trump's feud with the network escalates. 

On Sunday, Trump tweeted a redditor's video showing Trump body-slamming the CNN logo. The video has now been retweeted more than 330,000 times.

The video immediately sparked backlash from CNN and other journalists.

But the news outlet also faced its own criticism after it tracked down the creator of the video and, according to critics, 'threatened' to expose the identity of the redditor who created it.

COMMENT:  CNN needs new leadership, and a clear vision of what "the first name in news," as it calls itself, must be. 

I don't like everything Trump does, and his coarseness is unsettling and self-defeating.  But at least the man fights back against press corruption.  George W. Bush didn't fight back.  What did it get him, or the country?

July 6,  2017