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TIME, CBS News, CNN, the Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor run stories questioning whether there really is a health-care crisis...
...stories they want, when they want to see them. Subscribers interested in Tonya Harding, for example, might order up both the 30-second summary that aired on the nightly news and the 45-minute press conference held by her ex-husband's lawyer that was carried on CNN. By pressing a button on their TV remote control, they could even have TIME magazine's analysis of the story printed out by an ink-jet printer attached to their cable...
...weekly Canadian news magazine, MacLean's, "...other countries have their lurid scandals. But for sheer volume and variety the American experience--amplified by a hype machine that marries the age-old fascination with sex and violence to the modern miracle of high-tech communications--is unrivaled." Viewers of CNN apparently were so engrossed in courtroom testimony that when the channel switched to coverage of President Clinton's visit to Kiev, angry Bobbitt watchers clogged network phone lines, After all, how could international affairs even hope to compete with tales of rape and a severed penis...
Peter Arnett, a CNN correspondent to the Middle East during the Gulf war, said censorship created problems for wartime reporters...
Arnett said that the "internationalization of the news coverage" exemplified by CNN shifted the American media's depiction of war from "patriotic" and "nationalistic" to a more global...