CNN’s Brian Stelter defended his network Sunday as he wrapped his Reliable Sources show, saying he was “going to go a little bit rogue” as he rebuked critics in the wake of CNN former President Jeff Zucker’s resignation.
Zucker’s resignation and admission to an undisclosed consensual relationship with the network’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Allison Gollust, on Wednesday created a ripple of reaction, including some expressing shock and sadness and others questioning the integrity of the network.
“CNN is so much bigger than any single individual,” Stelter said. “It is about teams and teams of people, thousands of individuals who make up CNN.”
The anchor’s defense of CNN comes amid consistently low ratings that place the network well behind Fox News and MSNBC’s audience numbers.
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“This place is not perfect. It will never be perfect, but the people who say we’re lacking journalism, that we’ve become an all-talk channel, that we’ve run off and we’re all opinions all the time, that Jeff Zucker led us astray,” Stelter said. “Those people aren’t watching CNN.”
Stelter denounced the criticism, pointing to the number of bureaus stationed worldwide and the number of stories covered on the day Zucker resigned.
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“CNN is the executives and it’s the interns and everybody in between who keeps this place running 24/7,” Stelter added. “So when something horrible happens in the world, or when something wonderful happens in the world, you know where to turn. That’s what CNN is. We lost our leader this week, but we’re not going anywhere.”
