CNN President Jeff Zucker ripped into his network rivals at Fox News on Thursday, accusing the company of being “state-run TV” and a “propaganda machine.”
“It is really state-run TV. It is a pure propaganda machine and I think does an incredible disservice to this country,” said Zucker while speaking at the FT Future of News conference in New York City. “There are a handful of really good journalists there, but I think they are lost in what is a complete propaganda machine and the idea that it’s a news channel is really not the case at all.”
Zucker dug the knife in further still, saying Fox News was even worse than the Russian state media organization TASS.