CNN Turns Blind Eye To Benghazi Investigation. Shame On Them.

Not Newsworthy: CNN Boss Warns Network May Not Cover Benghazi Select Committee

May 21, 2014 by Ben Bullard 

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CNN won’t be guilted into covering the House Select Committee’s investigation into the Benghazi terror attack if its content directors believe the investigation isn’t newsworthy, network president Jeff Zucker told a reporter Tuesday at an awards event in New York.

“We’re not going to be shamed into it by others who have political beliefs that want to try to have temper tantrums to shame other news organizations into covering something,” Zucker reportedly told The New York Times’ Bill Carter. “If it’s of real news value, we’ll cover it.”

That’s a timely promise, because nothing says a network has a firm grasp on stories of real news value like chasing a missing airplane for two months amid global crises, national scandals, Congressional gridlock and a primary season for midterm elections – then firingyour news editor for serial plagiarism.

On the other hand, CNN’s leaders appear poised to innovate new ways to get a disinterested cable viewing audience to sit through climate change lectures shaming people into a government-led effort to save the Earth.

“Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven’t figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way,” Zucker said. “When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience’s part.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) committed five House Democrats to serve on the now-bipartisan Benghazi Select Committee earlier today, setting the stage for an open-ended investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya and the Obama Administration’s handling of the tragedy.