CNN’s Jake Tapper is under fire this morning for reportedly testing positive for COVID at work but staying to tape his 4:00 p.m. show, “The Lead,” in the studio, thus exposing his colleagues to the virus:
CNN's Jake Tapper infuriated colleagues after he taped a broadcast with COVID: reporthttps://t.co/sRkeqjoWLy
— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 24, 2022
And “Fake Jake” is born:
Fake Jakehttps://t.co/WeVXcHEE4p
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) May 24, 2022
You see, it’s different when *he* knowingly exposes colleagues to COVID:
13 Final Texts From Loved Ones Lost to Covid – The New York Times https://t.co/mm8OLtD4TV
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 20, 2022
The Daily Beast — NOT CNN’s in-house media reporting dynamic duo of Brian Stelter an Oliver Darcy — first reported the story:
NEW: Trouble is brewing at CNN. Some staffers on The Lead with Jake Tapper are seething about the host’s conduct following a COVID diagnosis earlier this month. https://t.co/1z2SoNnGD9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 24, 2022
The Daily Beast is reporting that Tapper’s colleagues are pissed, as well they should be:
“Jake Tapper tested positive for COVID while at CNN’s D.C. bureau on Monday, May 9, just prior to taping his 4 p.m. ET show, but according to two people familiar with the situation, he did not go home immediately, incensing some colleagues.”
Jake Tapper tested positive for COVID while at CNN’s D.C. bureau on Monday, May 9, just prior to taping his 4 p.m. ET show, but according to two people familiar with the situation, he did not go home immediately, incensing some colleagues. https://t.co/1z2SoNnGD9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 24, 2022
According to the report, “‘This happened in the same week that the country was mourning the millionth death due to COVID, which Jake covered on his show,’ one pissed-off staffer told media newsletter Confider.”
“This happened in the same week that the country was mourning the millionth death due to COVID, which Jake covered on his show,” one pissed-off staffer told media newsletter Confider. https://t.co/1z2SoNnGD9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 24, 2022
And The Daily Beast says Tapper was trying to get out ahead of the story:
“Jake Tapper, who is known to slide into reporters’ DMs to lash out at them for their coverage of him and CNN, was so freaked the story would leak that he had CNN’s PR team working overtime to run interference on media outlets that called to ask for comment.”
Jake Tapper, who is known to slide into reporters’ DMs to lash out at them for their coverage of him and CNN, was so freaked the story would leak that he had CNN’s PR team working overtime to run interference on media outlets that called to ask for comment https://t.co/1z2SoNnGD9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 24, 2022
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— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 24, 2022
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