Showing at this 12 months’s Wall Boulevard Journal “D: All Issues Digital” convention, CNN chief Jeff Zucker took photographs at rival networks Fox Information and MSNBC, claiming his cable channel covers a wider swath of content. The TV vet also asserted that CNN’s latest information mistakes have not damage the emblem.

“These two channels are masking politics. We’re covering politics and so much more,” Zucker mentioned of his opponents, all over a panel discussion on the D11 conference in Ranchos Palos Verdes, Calif. “Information is the way you outline it, we outline it generally as news and data. We’re increasing the target audience that’s looking at CNN As a way to be successful, we want to carry new viewers,” he persisted, in step with Deadline Hollywood.

Zucker did reward his rivals, on the other hand, for doing a “very good job” at overlaying the political content they gravitate in opposition to.

One target audience member asked Zucker how the CNN model has weathered the storm of various controversies including the error in reporting that an arrest had been made so quickly within the Boston bombing investigation. “We made a mistake in Boston and we corrected it in forty five minutes,” he mentioned. “The Boston Globe, who I believe will win the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Marathon bombing, didn’t appropriate it straight away.”

As for the criticism that the network focuses on “fluff” by using covering issues like the stranded Carnival cruise liner previous this 12 months, Zucker mentioned, “Protecting the brand is the important thing and one of the issues I’ve been so warmed by using is how sturdy and brilliant the CNN model remains to be even when their ratings have not been what they was once.”

“I don’t think that hurt the CNN model,” he delivered.

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