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At a launch party celebrating Jake Tapper‘s debut today on CNN‘s The Lead, network head Jeff Zucker called the former ABC reporter “the face of new CNN”, Politico reports. “This is the start of an incredible new era”, he added in remarks at Washington, D.C.’s Sixth Engine restaurant. Tapper’s new weekday show airs at 4pm daily with the newsman in place as chief Washington correspondent and anchor. In The Lead‘s inaugural broadcast Tapper interviewed Stephen Colbert about campaigning on behalf of his sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch, who’s running for office in South Carolina’s 1st congressional district.
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Don’t let Jeff Zucker change your journalistic instincts and neutral positioning and you’ll be on top soon, Jake. Good luck.
Exactly! If Jake sticks to his guns reporting in the same way he did at ABC he’ll be respected by people on both sides of the aisle.
Must be great for zucker to get outa broadcast.
Sorry Jake. The new face of CNN is sympathy for rapists.
Jeff, fire Piers Morgan. Then I will congratulate you.
Love all the Zucker wank on Deadline. Never fails to crack me up. Good luck CNN, you’re now stick with this jackass.
Unfairly shifts the burden of responsibility onto Tapper, doesn’t it? “The face” of a whole network? Is Scott Pelley “the face” of CBS? J.T.’s the best but maybe that’s part of what’s been wrong at CNN : too much of a burden is placed on one personality (Anderson Cooper)to carry them or save the day. It’s the mix and the quality of the coverage that will differentiate from what they’ve done in the recent past, which has gone on for quite a long time actually this “recent past,” of hyping people to unrealistic Herculean proportions. It’s unfair to the newscasters themselves. Walter Cronkite may have been deemed “the face” of CBS News – not a whole network – but that was after a long run and after the fact.
The first episode was very different than anything on MSNBC or Fox News around that same time. It felt more like a cross between SportsCenter and a network evening newscast, which is probably a good thing.