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CNN's Jeff Zucker Says His Network Might Make Scripted Films

You realize that a scripted film is not necessarily fiction. The word "fiction" doesn't appear in the linked story.
 
TheBigA said:
As I said, the word "fiction" doesn't appear in the story. That makes your use of the word "fiction."
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They don't have to use the word "fiction" when everyone knows that most of what they broadcast as news is fiction. The article also doesn't include the words, "truth", "reality", or "honesty". Make of that what you will.
 
TheBigA said:
Your post is guilty of the same thing you accuse them of doing.
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Well, my post has a mind of its own. I can't control it. If my post is guilty, then my post will just have to live with it.
 
Don't have high hopes for a film made by CNN unless its a documentary.
 
runbch said:
Don't have high hopes for a film made by CNN unless its a documentary.
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They have produced (or perhaps just aired) some very good documentaries lately, such as the series about the 1960s. IIRC, that series was produced by Tom Hanks production company.

I also watched a very good doc about a man who had been wrongly accused of murdering his wife, and finally released from prison after many years, due to help from Barry Scheck's Innocence Project.

But I agree - scripted dramas? I think not.
 
When will Zucker realize that he is the problem. He buried NBC, and now he is doing the same to CNN. Ted Turner is rolling in his grave..Wait what?
 
CNN has had the most success under Zucker in the last five years. He is realizing what others have known for a long time, and that is that hard news isn't the attraction it once was.
 
TheBigA said:
CNN has had the most success under Zucker in the last five years. He is realizing what others have known for a long time, and that is that hard news isn't the attraction it once was.
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True - there's a reason that CNN only becomes America's most watched cable news network when a huge story breaks (presidential elections, hurricanes, missing airplanes). It's because in the absence of a huge story, most viewers would rather watch opinion shows on Fox News or MSNBC.
 
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