Zucker: CNN Won't Be Shamed Into Benghazi Coverage

Jeff Zucker

CNN President Jeff Zucker has offered some hints as to how his network will cover potential hearings on the White House response to the 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last night at the Deadline Club’s annual awards dinner, according to Mediaite.

Unlike some other cable news networks that were left unmentioned, Zucker said CNN would not be “shamed” into covering the Republican-led investigation if it did not contain any real news.

“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, who interviewed him for the event.

“If it’s of real news value, we’ll cover it.”

Fox News has consistently covered the Benghazi story more than CNN or MSNBC, and recently started cutting away from President Barack Obama’s press conferences so long as the questions pertained to other matters. Presumably, any future Benghazi hearings will be big news on Fox.

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