knew that he cared. that's not always the case in media. leaders don't always eat, sleep, breathe, live the news, but zucker did. i mean, this was the headline when i first joined cnn nearly ten years ago, it says the guy has news in his veins and that was exactly right. he knows news. now, i haven't spoken with him since last week, but i'm sure he knows his exit is a big news story. it's been front page news, in fact. so let's try to answer the question on the minds of everyone i've been talking with. why was he forced out? well, the big part of the story that was underappreciated on wednesday, all this news coverage on wednesday, the big part that was underappreciated, the backdrop to all of this is a looming mega merger. cnn and hbo and the rest of westerner media are being spun off right now by at&t. it is step one in the formation of a new company warner froers discovery. the current ceo of discovery will run the new company. the deal is most likely two to