From of all places, Variety [1]:
Allison Gollust, the chief marketing officer at CNN, has resigned from the network following corporate parent WarnerMedia’s investigation into “issues associated with Chris Cuomo and former Governor Andrew Cuomo,” according to a memo from Jason Kilar, the company’s CEO.
“Performed by a third-party law firm and led by a former federal judge, the investigation was comprehensive and definitive. It was commissioned in September and concluded this weekend, which now allows me to share additional information with you,” Kilar said. “Based on interviews of more than 40 individuals and a review of over 100,000 texts and emails, the investigation found violations of Company policies, including CNN’s News Standards and Practices, by Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and Chris Cuomo.”
Wait… what?
Violation of standards? Who knew that CNN had standards? They obviously never affected the output of that fetid swamp. Or perhaps the discrepancies are explained by the difference between written standards and what actually happens. Much has been written about that delta, to the point where it’s now fully identified and in fact, axiomatic.
The article goes on from there;
In a statement, In a statement, Gollust alleged WarnerMedia was trying to undermine her in public. “WarnerMedia’s statement tonight is an attempt to retaliate against me and change the media narrative in the wake of their disastrous handling of the last two weeks. It is deeply disappointing that after spending the past nine years defending and upholding CNN’s highest standards of journalistic integrity, I would be treated this way as I leave,” she said Tuesday evening. “But I do so with my head held high, knowing that I gave my heart and soul to working with the finest journalists in the world.” alleged WarnerMedia was trying to undermine her in public. “WarnerMedia’s statement tonight is an attempt to retaliate against me and change the media narrative in the wake of their disastrous handling of the last two weeks. It is deeply disappointing that after spending the past nine years defending and upholding CNN’s highest standards of journalistic integrity, I would be treated this way as I leave,” she said Tuesday evening. “But I do so with my head held high, knowing that I gave my heart and soul to working with the finest journalists in the world.”
Obviously, there are hallucinogens involved here.
I find the word “retaliation”amusing, because I keep hearing rumblings that she was the one that Zucker supposedly had the “consensual relationship” with. I suspect, based on this, that the details are going to get juicier as the various factions up the ante.
It should be said that CNN’s problems neither start with Gollust, nor did they end there. The place is still circling the drain. Nobody, and I mean nobody is buying their product anymore. There is no reason to think that the amount of leftist pollution involved with that organization is going to change now.
Their demise can’t happen fast enough.