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...though administrators may have a hard time stomaching MTV and Nickelodeon, college students increasingly see CNN as an indispensable resource...

Author: By Tamar A. Shapiro, | Title: DISSECTING THE Mass-Cultural BEAST | 10/10/1992 | See Source »

...speech at the IOP, the CNN czar joked with an edge of bitterness about the lack of cable in Harvard dormitories...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Eyes on the News | 10/10/1992 | See Source »

...everything from mail-room clerk to racetrack flack, after six marriages, one annulment and five divorces, after being arrested for grand larceny, after declaring bankruptcy, after suffering a heart attack and undergoing bypass surgery, after all this and more, Larry King has finally arrived. His weeknight shows on CNN and Mutual radio are watched and listened to by more than 4 million people. A King interview nudged Ross Perot into the presidential arena. Another caused Dan Quayle to ruminate on what he might do if his daughter decided to have an abortion. Last week King questioned Henry Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A King Who Can Listen: LARRY KING | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...journalism results from what I do." In other words, he doesn't try to elicit facts so much as feelings, emotions, motives. "I like questions that begin with 'why' and 'how,' and I listen to the answers, which leads to more questions." It works: when Perot on his CNN Larry King Live show last February sounded tentative about the possibility of running for President, King kept following up until Perot all but announced. "My earliest memory," King says, "is of asking questions: What did you do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A King Who Can Listen: LARRY KING | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...prayer breakfast during the Republican Convention is revving up its final hallelujahs as Mary Lou Retton burbles her introduction of President Bush. Thousands of miles away, in his aerie on the Mediterranean, an avid CNN watcher is taking in the action and talking back to his TV set. Of the ex- gymnast, he predicts, "She'll be running for office very soon." The President, as usual, quotes a letter, this one from a child named Joy Vaughn. "What if her name were Joy Previn?" asks the viewer sarcastically. One of the pols plugs voluntary prayer in schools. "Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gadfly in Glorious, Angry Exile: GORE VIDAL | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

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