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While in Italy on vacation this summer, I decided to see what was on television. To my surprise, I watched what seemed to be CNN. But something was terribly wrong. Where, I wondered, was the update on Chandra Levy? Why did Larry King not appear and begin to pontificate? Why were there no interviews of Chris Tucker? Was this strange network, complete with news stories covering fluctuations in the global market and major international news events, really CNN...
Well, yes, in a way. It was CNN World—not the American CNN station that we in this country are accustomed to watching. In just a few moments of watching CNN World, I began to remember what the network used to be, and to better understand what it has become...
There was a time in even the recent past when CNN was the authority in television news. CNN would run live news coverage while other networks were showing soap operas. At night, CNN would present the day’s news while other networks covered local murders and fires. In short, CNN was the place to find the most important news...
Those days are over. I am disgusted with what the network has become. The producers seemingly can hardly contain themselves as they bounce breathlessly from coverage of one non-event to another. In August, for example, CNN interrupted a live press conference with Corey Stringer’s teammates with a live press conference hosted by Chandra Levy’s father. More alarming is when the network isn’t able to recognize which of two events is the more significant. CNN interrupted a speech by our current president to bring us live coverage of our former president...
...sides would have to agree to separation, and cooperate in the moves; it's hard in the current atmosphere to see how such cooperation could come to pass. If the Israelis attempted to relocate numbers of Palestinians by force, there would be much blood, and for Israel, a catastrophic CNN Effect. Turning out the Palestinians would get spun to the world audience as the Highland Clearances and the Trail of Tears and the Bataan Death and even, grotesquely, as the trains to Auschwitz - a replay, precisely, of the "nakba," the Palestinian "disaster...