The disgraced CNN president who was forced to resign, Jeff Zucker, reportedly ordered his staffers not to investigate the COVID lab leak theory.
He gave this order because Trump was promoting it and he viewed it as a Trump talking point.
Here’s more via the New York Post:
CNN’s then-president Jeff Zucker told his staffers not to investigate the “lab leak theory” behind the origins of COVID-19 because he thought it was a “Trump talking point,” according to a report.
A “well-placed” CNN insider told Fox News Digital on Monday that Zucker gave the order in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.
“People are slowly waking up from the fog,” the insider told Fox News Digital.
“It is kind of crazy that we didn’t chase it harder.”
Mainstream news organizations including CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, and others have been pilloried in recent days following a recent government report which concluded that an accidental leak from a Chinese laboratory is the most likely explanation for the COVID outbreak.
In the initial weeks and months of the pandemic, prominent media personalities, public health officials, and elected officials from the Democratic Party dismissed the “lab leak” theory as “debunked” — with some suggesting it was racist to even discuss the topic.
How unthinkable it is that someone running a news organization like CNN would order his staffers to completely ignore a viable theory that needed investigation because of his hatred for a sitting president.
It just goes to show how deranged the media was against Trump.
And it wasn’t just CNN. I don’t remember any mainstream media company investigating the lab leak theory. What I do remember was the media telling us that calling it the ‘Wuhan virus’ was racist against Chinese people.
The media really damaged their reputations over their hatred for Trump and Zucker was a big part of it.