'Cable News Network', commonly referred to by its acronym 'CNN', is a major
cable television network founded in 1980 by
Ted Turner.
[1][2] The network is now owned by
Time Warner, the news network is a division of the
Turner Broadcasting System. CNN introduced the idea of 24-hour television news coverage, celebrating its 25th anniversary on
June 1,
2005.
In terms of cumulative (Cume)
Nielsen ratings or "unique viewers", CNN rates as America's number one cable news source.
[3] While the news network has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from its headquarters at the
CNN Center in
Atlanta, the
Time Warner Center in
New York City, and studios in
Washington, DC. As of December 2004, the network is available in 88.2 million U.S. households and more than 890,000 American hotel rooms. The U.S version of their broadcast is also shown in
Canada. Globally, CNN airs through
CNN International and has combined branded networks and services that are available to more than 1.5 billion people in over 212 countries and territories.
Some
conservative observers have claimed that CNN has a liberal
bias. Critics, such as
Accuracy in Media and
MRC, have claimed that CNN's reporting contains liberal editorializing within news stories.
[4][5]
History
The Cable News Network was launched at 5:00 p.m. EST on
June 1 1980. After an introduction by Ted Turner, the husband and wife team of
David Walker and
Lois Hart anchored the first newscast.
[6] Since its debut, CNN has expanded its reach to a number of cable and satellite television networks, several web sites, specialized closed-circuit networks (such as
CNN Airport Network), and two
radio networks. The network has 42 bureaus, more than 900 affiliated local stations, and several regional and foreign-language networks around the world. The network's success made a bona-fide mogul of founder
Ted Turner and set the stage for the
Time Warner conglomerate's eventual acquisition of
Turner Broadcasting.
Despite its domestic standing, CNN remains a distant second in international news coverage, reaching just over half of the audience of the older
BBC News. Unlike BBC's network of reporters and bureaus, CNN International makes extensive use of affiliated reporters that are local to, and often directly affected by, the events they are reporting. The effect is a more immediate, less detached style of on-the-ground coverage. This has done little to stem criticism, largely from Middle Eastern nations, that CNN International reports news from a pro-American perspective. This is a marked contrast to domestic criticisms that often portray CNN as having a "liberal" or "anti-American" bias.
A companion network,
Headline News (originally called CNN2) was launched in 1982 and featured a continuous 24-hour cycle of 30-minute news broadcasts. Headline News broke from its original format in 2006 with the addition of ''
Headline Prime''. Current programs feature confrontational personalities like radio talk-show host
Glenn Beck and former
Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor
Nancy Grace.
The Gulf War
The first Persian
Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the network past the "big three" American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate outside
Iraq during the initial hours of the American bombing campaign. Clandestine live reports from the
al-Rashid Hotel in
Baghdad by reporters
Bernard Shaw,
John Holliman, and
Peter Arnett are some of the most nail-biting, suspenseful reports in television news history.
Much of the vivid suspense results, ironically, from the reporters' inability to offer a video feed, which forced CNN to present their degraded, telephone-quality audio over live green-tinted night-vision shots of a Baghdad sky streaked with tracers and explosions. These images evoked
Edward R. Murrow's radio reports of the
London Blitzkrieg during
World War II, resulting in some of the most indelible journalistic images of the late 20th Century. Their impact was widespread and profound.
The Gulf War experience brought CNN some much sought-after legitimacy and made household names of previously obscure (and infamously low-paid) reporters. Many of these reporters now comprise CNN's "old guard."
Bernard Shaw became CNN's chief anchor until his retirement in 2001. Others include then-Pentagon correspondent
Wolf Blitzer (now host of ''
The Situation Room'' and ''
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer'') and international correspondent
Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour's presence in Iraq was caricatured by actress Nora Dunn as the ruthless reporter "Adriana Cruz" in the film ''
Three Kings'' (1999, dir:
David O. Russell). Time Warner later produced a
television movie, ''
Live from Baghdad'', about the network's coverage of the first Gulf War, which aired on
HBO.
The CNN effect
Coverage of the first Gulf War and other crises of the early 1990s (particularly the infamous "''Black Hawk Down''"
Battle of Mogadishu) led officials at the Pentagon to coin the term "the
CNN effect" to describe the perceived impact of
real time, 24-hour news coverage on the decision-making processes of the
American government.
9/11
CNN claims to be the first network to break news of the
September 11 attacks.
Anchor Carol Lin was on the air to deliver the first public report of the event. She broke into a commercial at 8:49 a.m. ET and said:
"This just in. You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. CNN Center right now is just beginning to work on this story, obviously calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly something relatively devastating happening this morning there on the south end of the island of Manhattan. That is once again, a picture of one of the towers of the World Trade Center."
Sean Murtagh, CNN vice-president for finance & administration, was the first network employee on the air in New York.
[7]
Experiments
CNN launched two specialty news channels for the American market which would later close amid competitive pressure:
CNNSI shut down in
2002, and
CNNfn shut down after nine years on the air in
December 2004. CNN and Sports Illustrated's partnership continues today online at CNNSI.com. CNNfn's former website now redirects to money.cnn.com, a product of CNN's strategic partnership with
Money Magazine.
Online
CNN debuted its news website
CNN.com (then known as as ''CNN Interactive'' or ''CNNi'') on
August 30 1995. Initially an experiment, interest in
CNN.com grew steadily over its first decade and today
CNN.com is now one of the most popular news websites in the world. The wide-spread growth of
blogs,
social media and
user-generated content has had a profound effect on the network, and blogs in particular have focused CNN's previously scattershot online offerings, most noticeably in the development and launch of
CNN Pipeline in late 2005.
CNN Pipeline was the name of a paid subscription service, its corresponding website, and a content delivery client that provided streams of live video from up to four sources (or "pipes"), on-demand access to CNN stories and reports, and optional pop-up "news alerts" to computer users. The installable client was available to users of PCs running
Microsoft Windows. There was also a browser-based "web client" that did not require installation. The service was discontinued in July of 2007 and replaced with a very similar but free web based live video service.
[8]
The now-defunct topical news-program
Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics was the first CNN program to feature a round-up of blogs in 2004. Blog coverage was expanded when
Inside Politics was folded into the
The Situation Room. In 2006, CNN launched
CNN Exchange and
CNN iReport, initiatives designed to further introduce and centralize the impact of everything from
blogging to
citizen journalism within the CNN brand.
CNN iReport which features user-submitted photos and video, has achieved considerable traction, with increasingly professional-looking reports filed by amateur journalists, many still in high school or college. The iReport gained more prominence when observers of the Virginia Tech Shootings sent-in first hand photos of what was going during the shootings.
CNN continues to expand its online platform and now offers several
RSS feeds and
podcasts.
CNN in popular culture
★ CNN has been
parodied many times. Many movies outside of the Turner Broadcasting Network also mention CNN in their storylines. In the movie
Mr Bones appears a news network with the name "CCN", its logo being in the same font as CNN's. In the video game '', CNN is parodied by calling the news station, 'EANN', with the EA standing for the video game company's name,
Electronic Arts. The movie Batman Forever shows a newscast on "GNN" (presumably standing for Gotham News Network) The Logo is very similair to the "CNN" logo. Other parodies, or references include Command and Conquer Zero Hour's American campaign, featuring updates on missions with a correspondent from BNN, the rapper Eminem included a similar alteration in his song
Without Me, where, dressed up as Osama Bin Laden he was reported on by ENN, obviously due to his name being 'E'minem. Some fictional television shows also use a parody of CNN known as ''
ZNN''.
★ CNN's most famous station ID is a five-second musical jingle with
James Earl Jones' simple but classic line, ''"This is CNN."'' Jones' voice can still be heard today in updated station IDs. The line has also been referenced in other programming, including
The Simpsons.
Current shows
★ ''
American Morning'' - The network's
morning news program. Hosted by
Kiran Chetry and
John Roberts.
★ ''
CNN Newsroom'' - A daily look at what's making news, airing live from Atlanta. Anchored by
Heidi Collins and
Tony Harris (Weekday Mornings);
Kyra Phillips and
Don Lemon (Weekday Afternoons);
Betty Nguyen and
TJ Holmes (Weekend Mornings),
Fredricka Whitfield (Weekend Afternoons); and
Rick Sanchez (Weekend Evenings). Weekend anchors also act as weekday substitutes if need be.
★ ''
Your World Today'' - A
CNN International program covering international news in-depth.
★ ''
The Situation Room'' - A fast-paced look at the day's top stories, focusing on politics and homeland security. Anchored by
Wolf Blitzer.
★ ''
Lou Dobbs Tonight'' - A nightly news and discussion program; evolved from ''
Moneyline'', a nightly business newscast.
★ ''
Out in the Open'' - The newest nightly program hosted by Rick Sanchez.
★ ''
Larry King Live'' - A nightly talk program, hosted by
Larry King
★ ''
Anderson Cooper 360°'' - A fast-paced, nightly news program with former
ABC News reporter
Anderson Cooper.
★ ''
Reliable Sources'' - A weekly talk program focusing on a critical look at the media.
Washington Post media critic
Howard Kurtz hosts and talks with a panel of guests about how well the media covered the week's stories. Guests usually include print, television, and Internet journalists.
★ ''
Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer'' - CNN's political talk show, similar to CBS' ''
Face the Nation'' or NBC's ''
Meet the Press''.
★ ''
House Call'' - A medically oriented program, hosted by
Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
★ ''
This Week at War'' - An inside look at the week's developments in the war on terror from CNN correspondents. Hosted by
Tom Foreman.
★ ''
CNN Saturday Morning''/''
CNN Sunday Morning'' - The network's weekend morning news program. Anchored by
Betty Nguyen and
TJ Holmes.
★ ''
CNN Special Investigations Unit'' - Formerly known as "CNN Presents," "CNN:SIU" is a long-form investigative series that features CNN correspondents delivering in-depth, hour-long feature reports on current events and other news worthy topics.
★ ''
CNN Presents'' - A program that features multi-hour event productions
[9][10][11], such as Anderson Cooper's "Planet in Peril" or Christiane Amanpours' "God’s Warriors".
[12]
★ Open House - A personal finance show with a focus on the housing market, hosted by
Gerri Willis
Former shows
★ ''
Both Sides with Jesse Jackson'' - A political talk show, hosted by civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate
Jesse Jackson, that aired Sundays. The show ran from
1992 to
2000.
[13]
★ ''
The Capital Gang'' - One of cable news' longest running programs, focusing on political news. Original panelists included
Pat Buchanan,
Al Hunt,
Mark Shields, and
Robert Novak. When Buchanan left the network to run for president,
Margaret Carlson and then
Kate O'Beirne became regular panelists. ''The Capital Gang'' aired Saturday nights at 7 p.m. ET from
1988 to
2005.
★ ''
Crossfire'' - A political debate program, consisting of views from left-wing and right-wing ideologies, that aired during
prime time and daytime until mid-
2005. Originally hosted by
Tom Braden and
Pat Buchanan, other former hosts included
Robert Novak,
Michael Kinsley,
Tucker Carlson,
James Carville,
Paul Begala,
Geraldine Ferraro,
Bay Buchanan, and
Donna Brazile. ''Crossfire'' was discontinued in 2005, with Klein denouncing the show as "just two men screaming at each other."
★ ''
Evans and Novak'' - Saturday night political discussion program with
Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak. The name changed to ''Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields'' in 1998 when
Al Hunt and
Mark Shields became permanent panelists. When Evans left the show in 2001, the name changed to ''Novak, Hunt, and Shields'' for its final year on CNN.
★ ''
Next@CNN'' - A scientific and technology oriented program hosted by
Daniel Sieberg. Aired on weekends. Despite its cancellation on CNN in the U.S., the show continues to air new episodes on
CNN International.
★ ''
Inside Politics'' - A political program that aired from 3:30–5 p.m. ET weekdays. Replaced by ''
The Situation Room'' in 2005.
★ ''
Wolf Blitzer Reports'' - A daily look at the day's stories that aired live from Washington at 5 p.m. ET. Replaced by ''
The Situation Room'' in 2005.
★ ''
NewsNight With Aaron Brown'' - A hard-news program anchored by
Aaron Brown which took an in-depth look at the main U.S. and international stories of the day. Was axed from CNN's schedule on
November 5,
2005, leading to Brown's immediate resignation from the network.
★ ''
CNN Daybreak'' - A first look at the day's stories that aired live from New York at 5 a.m. ET.
★ ''
CNN Sports Sunday '' - The first program on CNN.
June 1,
1980. Co-anchored by
Bob Kurtz and
Nick Charles.
★ ''
Connie Chung Tonight'' -- Hosted by
Connie Chung. Cancelled in
March 2003.
★ ''
Freeman Reports'' - one of the original programs from 1980. Host
Sonja Freeman interviewed guests and took live telephone call-ins regarding current news events and other topics of interest. For a brief period the program featured a live audience in Atlanta. Freeman's former time slot is now occupied by Larry King.
★ ''
People Now'' - another original program. Host
Lee Leonard interviewed celebrities and discussed entertainment news in a one hour program live from the CNN Los Angeles bureau. Leonard was replaced by Mike Douglas, who himself was replaced by Bill Tush in December 1982.
★ ''
Computer Connection''
★ ''
Future Watch''
★ ''
Your Health''
★ ''
Style with Elsa Klensch'' - weekly half hour on Saturday mornings featuring news on style and fashion.
★ ''
Talk Back Live'' - A call-in talk show with a live audience hosted most recently by
Arthel Neville. Aired from
1994 to
2003.
★ ''
On the Story' '- CNN's interactive "week-in-review" series featuring an in-depth look at the story behind some of the week's biggest stories. Anchored by
Ali Velshi. However, the show was suspended in
June 2006, later cancelled in July.
★ ''
Burden of Proof'' - A show that discussed legal issues of the day, hosted by
Greta Van Susteren and
Roger Cossack.
★ ''
Newsstand''
★ ''
Newshour''
★ '' Sonya / Sonya Live In LA - A weekday call-in show airing at 1PM Eastern in the late 80's & Early 90s hosted by Dr. Sonya Friedman.
★ ''
CNN Live Today'' - Was a daily look at what's making news, airing live from Atlanta at 10 a.m. ET on weekdays. Anchored by
Daryn Kagan.
★ ''
Live From...'' - A lively look at the day's stories airing live from Atlanta at 1 p.m. ET. Anchored by
Kyra Phillips.
★ ''
CNN Live Saturday'' / ''
CNN Live Sunday'' - A look at what's making news on the weekends, airing live from Atlanta. Anchored by
Fredricka Whitfield 12:00-6:00pm and
Carol Lin 6:00-11:00pm. Replaced in 2006 by CNN Newsroom Weekend.
★ ''
CNN Saturday Night''/''
CNN Sunday Night'' - The network's weekend evening news program, airing at 6 p.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET. Anchored by
Carol Lin. Replaced in 2006 by CNN Newsroom Weekend.
★ ''
People in the News'' - CNN's feature-format program with
PEOPLE magazine profiling newsmakers from politics, sports, business, medicine, and entertainment. The program aired on the weekend and has hosted by
Paula Zahn.
★ ''
Diplomatic License'' - Weekly program on CNNI hosted by Richard Roth, focusing on the
United Nations. The show ran from 1994 to 2006.
★ ''
Paula Zahn Now'' - Was a look at the current issues affecting the world, with former
CBS and
Fox News anchor
Paula Zahn. Last broadcast was on
August 2nd,
2007.
Specialized channels
★
CNN Airport Network
★
CNN en Español
★
CNNfn (Financial network, closed in
December 2004)
★
CNN Headline News
★
CNN HD (
High-definition edition of the network, launched
September 1,
2007)
★
CNN International
★
CNN Pipeline (24-hour multi-channel broadband online news service)
★
CNN+ (a partner network in
Spain, launched in 1999 with
Sogecable)
★
CNN Sports Illustrated (also known as CNNSI), the network's all-
sports channel, closed in 2002.
★
CNN TÜRK
★
CNN-IBN An
Indian news channel.
★
CNNj
Personalities
Post Production editing offices in Atlanta.
Present
Past
★ Roz Abrams - (Last seen at WCBS-TV)
★ Natalie Allen - (Last seen at MSNBC)
★ Aaron Arispe Sr.- (Retired)
★ Aaron Arispe Jr.- (Now a NFL Football Player)
★ Peter Arnett
★ Jane Arraf - (Now with NBC News)
★ Sharyl Atkisson - (Now with CBS News)
★ Rudi Bakhtiar - (Last seen at FOX News Channel)
★ Bobbie Battista - (Launched www.Atamira.com)
★ Ralph Begleiter
★ Jason Bellini - (Now with Logo)
★ Charles Bierbauer
★ Richard Blystone - (Now with the International Herald Tribune)
★ Mike Boettcher - (Now with NBC News)
★ Tom Braden
★ Rym Brahimi - (retired, married Arab prince)
★ Aaron Brown - (Now professor at Arizona State University)
★ Lyn Brown - (1984-1988)
★ Pat Buchanan - (Now with MSNBC)
★ Chris Burns - (Now with Bloomberg)
★ Tony Campion - (now with BBC)
★ Tucker Carlson - (Now with MSNBC)
★ James Carville - (Now with XM radio and film producer - still a guest on various CNN programs)
★ Vince Cellini - (Now with the Golf Channel)
★ Nick Charles - (Now with Showtime)
★ Joie Chen - (Now with CBS News)
★ Lynne Cheney- Second Lady of the United States of America
★ Ryan Chilcote
★ Mike Chinoy - (Now with Pacific Council on International Policy [1]) and also appears on ETTV America
★ Sophia Choi
★ Connie Chung
★ Wesley Clark -(FOX News Channel)
★ Reid Collins
★ Roger Cossack - (now Legal Analyst on ESPN)
★ Katie Couric - (Now with CBS News)
★ Chris Curle
★ Dan Dorfman
★ Mike Douglas - (Deceased)
★ Patrick Emory - (Retired)
★ Don Farmer
★ Sasha Foo - (KUSI, San Diego)
★ Dr. Sonya Friedman
★ David Goodnow
★ Gordon Graham
★ Jeff Greenfield - (now with CBS News)
★ Patrick Greenlaw
★ Nick Gregory - (Now with WNYW-Fox)
★ Leon Harris - (Now with WJLA-TV)
★ Don Harrison - (deceased)
★ Lois Hart- (Now with KCRA-TV and KQCA-TV; wife of former CNN alumni Dave Walker)
★ James Hattori - (Now with NBC News)
★ Bill Hemmer - (Fox News Channel)
★ Fred Hickman - (Now with ESPN)
★ Maria Hinojosa - (Now with Now on PBS)
★ John Holliman - (deceased)
★ Andrew Holtz
★ Jan Hopkins - (Now independent consultant)
★ Jim Huber
★ Al Hunt - (Now with Bloomberg)
★ Jesse Jackson
★ Brian Jenkins
★ Daryn Kagan - (Now running Darynkagan.com, her own inspirational website)
★ Myron Kandel- (Retired 2005)
★ Donna Kelley
★ Sandy Kenyon - (PARADE Magazine, various radio & TV)
★ Riz Khan
★ Michael Kinsley
★ Dennis Kirkpatrick
★ Bob Kurtz - (First sports anchor, now a minister) |
★ Jeff Koinange - (left in May 2007)
★ Steve Kosch - (www.thevideoeditor.com)
★ Sachi Koto - (left in 2005)
★ Lawrence Kudlow - (Now with CNBC)
★ Greg LaMotte - (Now with KULR-TV Billings, Montana)
★ Larry LaMotte - (Deceased)
★ Denise LeClair - An original CNN anchor and first Headline News anchor
★ Lee Leonard
★ Carol Lin - (Left December 30, 2006)
★ Kirsten Lindquist
★ Bob Losure - (www.boblosure.com)
★ Tumi Makgabo
★ Mary Matalin - (Now Republican political consultant)
★ Deborah Marchini
★ Miguel Marquez (Now with ABC News)
★ Molly McCoy
★ Ann McDermott
★ Dennis Michael
★ Dave Michaels
★ Jim Moret - (Now with Inside Edition and professor at UCLA)
★ Valerie Morris - (poised to host a financial literacy programme aimed at woman and people with colour)
★ Brian Nelson - (Now Boeing Communications Director At Kennedy Space Center
★ Lucia Newman- (Now with Al Jazeera International as a correspondent based in Buenos Aires)
★ Lucy Noland- now at KHOU-TV In Texas
★ Bryan Norcross - (Now with CBS)
★ Robert Novak - (Fox News Channel)
★ Joe Oliver
★ Patti Paniccia
★ Christina Park
★ Natalie Pawelski
★ Dan Patrick - (Now with ESPN)
★ Veronica Pedrosa - (Now with Al-Jazeera International)
★ Kathy Pepino
★ Gene Randall - (Now media consultant)
★ Dallas Raines - (Now with KABC-TV, Los Angeles)
★ Maria Ressa - (Now Head of News and Public Affairs, ABS-CBN, Philippines)
★ Susan Rook - (retired)
★ Sonia Ruseler
★ Lynne Russell - (Now with CBC/Radio-Canada, anchoring for CBC Newsworld)
★ Andrea Sanke - (Now evening anchor for the newly launched France24 English)
★ Martin Savidge - (Now with NBC News)
★ Daniel Schorr - (Now with NPR as Senior News Analyst)
★ Bella Shaw - (now doing infomercials)
★ Bernard Shaw - (retired)
★ Orelon Sidney
★ Kate Snow - (now with ABC-TV)
★ Martin Soong - (now with CNBC Asia)
★ Flip Spiceland - (Now with WXIA-NBC)
★ Hannah Storm - (Now with CBS News)
★ Kathleen Sullivan
★ John Sununu
★ Sherri Sylvester
★ Cal Thomas - (Now with Fox News Channel)
★ Andrea Thompson
★ Bill Tush - (Now free-lance reporter)
★ Greta Van Susteren - (FOX News Channel)
★ Stuart Varney - (FOX News Channel)
★ Lynn Vaughn
★ Robert Vito
★ Valerie Voss
★ Dave Walker - (Now with KCRA-TV and KQCA-TV; husband of former CNN alum Lois Hart)
★ Lou Waters
★ Ralph Wenge
★ Liz Wickersham
★ Mary Alice Williams - (Now with WCBS News Radio)
★ Kelly Wallace - (Now a correspondent for CBS News)
★ Judy Woodruff - (Bloomberg) and PBS
★ Paula Zahn - (Resigned from the network July 24, 2007 [14]) |
Bureaux
CNN bureau locations
: '''Note:' Boldface indicates that they are CNN's original bureaux, meaning they have been in operation since the network's founding.''
United States
Worldwide
★ Amman, Jordan (small bureau)
★ Athens, Greece (small bureau)
★ Baghdad, Iraq
★ Bangkok, Thailand
★ Berlin, Germany
★ Beijing, China
★ Beirut, Lebanon
★ Bogotá, Colombia (small bureau)
★ Brussels, Belgium (small bureau)
★ Buenos Aires, Argentina
★ Cairo, Egypt
★ Dubai, United Arab Emirates (large bureau)
★ Frankfurt, Germany (small bureau)
★ Havana, Cuba
★ 'Hong Kong, China' (Asian regional headquarters)
★ Islamabad, Pakistan |
★ Istanbul, Turkey
★ Jakarta, Indonesia
★ Jerusalem, Israel
★ Johannesburg, South Africa
★ Lagos, Nigeria
★ 'London, United Kingdom' (European regional headquarters)
★ Madrid, Spain
★ Manila, Philippines (small bureau)
★ Mexico City, Mexico
★ Moscow, Russia
★ Nairobi, Kenya (small bureau)
★ New Delhi, India
★ Rome, Italy
★ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (small bureau)
★ São Paulo, Brazil (small bureau)
★ Seoul, South Korea
★ Tokyo, Japan |
Criticism and controversies
Main articles: CNN controversies
CNN has been accused of bias for allegedly promoting both a conservative and a liberal agenda based on previous incidents, although the primary critcism has been that CNN has a liberal bias. It has also been accused of being slanted toward US interests when reporting on world conflicts and wars.
[15] Critics such as
LA Weekly say it is part of an alleged pro-war news media. CNN denies any bias.
As
Fox News Channel continues to receive higher viewership than CNN
[16], several prominent former CNN personalities has come to criticise certain aspects of the news network.
Aaron Brown has said that CNN has committed "huge mistakes" and frames CNN as an "organisation that is trying to figure out if it can be all things to all people." However, he also praised CNN's journalistic superiority, saying, "[...] CNN's a better journalism organization."
[17] Bernard Shaw has expressed that he is "very very disappointed with the way the news management" has handled his favourite network. He criticised the effects of Fox News's "commentary
[and] personal analysis" on the news reporting of CNN, saying that "CNN continues to ape many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network, and I don't like that."
[18]
See also
★
News channel
★
Breaking news
★
CNN effect
★
CNN-IBN An India News Channel
★
List of DirecTV channels
★
List of Dish Network channels
References
1. Reese Schonfeld Bio. (January 29, 2001) ''MeAndTed.com''. Accessed 2007-06-18.
2. Charles Bierbauer, CNN senior Washington correspondent, discusses his 19-year career at CNN. (May 8, 2000). ''CNN.com''. Accessed 2007-06-18.
3. The State of the News Media 2007 : Audience
4. http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/A3962_0_2_0_C/
5. http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/1999/cyb19990217.asp
6. ''American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest'' by Steve Michael Barkin, M.E. Sharpe, 2003
7. CNN.com (September 11, 2001) Available at archive.org. Accessed 2007-06-18.
8. CNN live streaming website
9. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/default.asp
10. http://www.turnerinfo.com/newsitem.aspx?P=CNN&CID01=e58c7533-da3d-4c3f-8501-3f034d409622
11. http://www.turnerinfo.com/newsitem.aspx?P=CNN&CID01=09f454c7-3dd2-41dd-bc5a-de71dca28889
12. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/
13. Rev. Jesse Jackson. (October 2001). ''RainbowPush.org.'' Accessed 2007-06-18.
14. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/paula_zahn_resigns_63672.asp#email
15. CNN Exposed, cnnEXPOSED.com
16. Fox News Channel has viewers who view for longer periods of time. CNN has more viewers tune in during a given day
17. Aaron Brown Talks About... "CNN's Struggle" & The Competition From Fox. TVNEWSER. 6 Jul 2007.
18. Retired anchor Shaw laments effects of Fox on his beloved CNN. Chicago Sun-Times. 5 Jun 2007.
External links
★
Official Site
★
CNN International
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