Zucker's team hasn't sought to hide ill feelings toward Licht, but strongly denied he has tried to buy CNN. Discovery, current owners of CNN, and Variety said Zucker complained that Licht was unfairly maligning him in the press. Zaslav wanted to know if Zucker was trying to assemble investors to buy CNN. The Variety article “struck me as utterly implausible and sophomoric,” Byers wrote for Puck this week. As with Byers, Variety didn't change what it had written about Alberta.

Source: CNN July 29, 2023 07:51 UTC