on the network fairly often basically what you would be t told was that okay, everything that you see on the chief media correspondent show on sunday is basically written by zucker. right. and he would in that s why it s so focused on fox. it s go after the competitor. it s burger king going after mcdonald s. is pepsi going after coke and that s why the show has become so myopic at this point. you know, it s funny with this whole thing with zucker at this point because here you have you know, the chief media correspondent also saying that , wow, nobody knew about this . now i am pretty sure that my my mother in law knew about that relationship betweenie zucker and his chief marketing officer who happened to work forti. right.e oh , you love the secret in the industry years ago i got a take somebody to i m not about hurting children and families.no that s not who i am. and you know, and i just said m no thanks. i m not interested.
would be told is everything that you see on the chief media correspondent show on sunday is basically cowritten by zucker and that is why it is so focused on fox. it is go after the competitor, it is burger king going after mcdonald s, it is pepsi going after coke and that is why the show has become so myopic at this point. but it s funny with this whole thing with zucker at this point because here you have the chief media correspondent also saying that wow, nobody knew about this. i am pretty sure that my mother-in-law knew about that relationship between zucker and his chief marketing officer who happen to work for cuomo. the secret in the industry. sean: years ago i got a tape, somebody wanted i m not about hurting children and families, that is not who i am. and you know what, i just said no thanks, i m not interested.
cnn, that is a remarkable domino effect, a chain of events. sean: it s official the stenographer, that guy, humpty dumpty is now in a boat without a rudder. what is humpty going to do? guess what, kissing jeff zucker s ass is not going to advance your pathetic, feeling career anymore. it s very generous meal ticket is now gone and humpty dumpty may be close behind. look at this from the daily mail, insiders are calling for humpty, that is brian stelter, to be fired after failing to support zucker s open secret affair. remember he is a so-called chief media correspondent for fake news cnn, and never seems to notice when his dear leader or anyone on his network is doing something wrong. in fact, one source actually just referred to as jeff zucker s water boy if you read the piece. you call yourself a journalist, right? pretty pathetic.
just believe us. that s basically what the biden administration said this week, twice, when reporters pressed for evidence of the government s claims. just trust us. well, that is not what journalists do. that is not what journalists are meant to do. journalists are meant to probe and press for the evidence, regardless of who is in power. that s the purpose of places like cnn. that s the reason why we need independent news rooms in this country. that s why other countries suffer when they don t have them. for more on that and a lot of other stories david zurawik is here with me, former baltimore sun media critic, claire atkinson is also back with us, chief media correspondent for insider. david, i couldn t believe this. the biden administration is just saying, just trust us. believe us. that is not our role.
around race. in his apology, rogan said that his words were taken out of context. joining us now to discuss is cnn chief media correspondent and the anchor of reliable sources, brian stelter. brian, good sunday morning to you. how is spotify responding to this latest controversy? right now, by ducking and hoping this all blows over. but we will see whether it does or not. as you said, rogan apologized yesterday after this video compilation started to make the rounds. in this video compilation, you hear him using the n-word again and again and again on different podcast episodes that he made several years ago. most of these are a decade old, these are not from when he was working with spotify, having an exclusive distribution deal with spotify. the company is saying well, they re not saying anything on the record, they re not commenting. but they are moacknowledging th there was concern with some of these episodes and rogan had them removed over the weekend. whether his apology is