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DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN RON Brown was beaming as he bounced into the CNN Washington bureau (where I work part time). And rightly so. It was midafternoon on Election Day, and exit polls showed that Bill Clinton was going to win big. But before going on-air, Brown sobered up. "I'd better not seem too happy," he said. "The polls are still open." Brown soon appeared on TV screens around the world expressing cautious optimism to an interviewer who knew as well as Brown did that the result was a foregone conclusion...
Television graphics are really the images which will anchor the 20th century in human history. CNN presented a piquant montage of flying insignia and colliding stars, all to the swirling depths of epic music. Interactive media reached its apogee in exit poll analysis in one broadcast, as sturdy colored columns thrust out of the presenter's table to represent voters' wishes. "Now, Diane, do we have a breakdown of veterans from the Korean as opposed to Vietnam wars?" Pollsters' minutiae assailed the retina, with columns, forecasts and maps pulsating in all directions, quite inexplicably, yet invoked in deadly serious tones...
...policy, receive massive amounts of intelligence per day, which sometimes they read and sometimes they don't; yet every government official reads The Washington Post or The New York Times every day. In every government office, be it the Congress, State Department or Pentagon, television sets are tuned to CNN both for the latest news and so that government officials know what will be news. The headlines of the Post and Times determine the day's agenda regardless of whether that issue is trivial or detrimental to the United States...
...Pins from CNN and Fox have flooded the market and gone way down in value," says Lee as he traded one of his few treasures, an NBC "Barcelona `92" beauty for one with the Washington Post logo...
Bush did not even think to mention any minorities working with him. Perhaps he assumed that since the questioner was a white woman (Susan Rook of CNN), she would only be interested in the white women aides...