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...CNN nonetheless does a good job on business, technology, entertainment and sports and capably covers the White House and U.S. politics. It can show great sensitivity in dealing with racial and multicultural conflict and is attuned to the concerns of women and gays. But its intellectual thinness is evident in the way it covers foreign affairs -- with the same tired emphasis on revolutions, wars, famines and disasters found in the traditional half-hour nightly network news shows, despite having the airtime to give a more rounded picture. An emphasis on events rather than analysis may, however, be a factor...
...idea that CNN ought to be more analytic and instructive is not universally held among government and business leaders either. Many like the network just as it is. Sir Bernard Ingham used to be the combative press secretary to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, herself so big a fan of CNN that the network has made special arrangements for her to get it at ( her office. Says Ingham: "I don't think we want analysis. What we want is reporting of the facts. People can form their own judgments. There are too damn many journalists analyzing the news...
...great deal of the criticism of CNN from outside the U.S. seems to be rooted in general resentment of U.S. power and influence. The network is often labeled as the latest example of U.S. cultural imperialism. Longtime French TV news correspondent Christine Ockrent calls CNN "a U.S. channel with a global vocation, but which sees the world through an American prism." She is dismissive of its most widely discussed experiment, the weekly World Report, which airs unedited stories taken from TV channels around the world. Says Ockrent: "Asking Serbian television for its reading of the situation is not providing world...
...style of the eminently quotable and confessional Ted Turner, the freewheeling and frankly told adventures of CNN have yielded entertaining books. Newly among them is Seven Days That Shook the World, a story of the Soviet coup that hit the stands in December, from CNN's corporate sibling, Turner Publishing, with photos by the Soviet agency TASS and an introduction by Hedrick Smith. Another recent book is the disjointed but richly anecdotal Live from Baghdad (Doubleday; $22), written by Robert Wiener, producer of CNN's wartime coverage from Iraq. Wiener's final words are "To broadcast, for the first time...
...What CNN viewers have seen in the past year is the awakening of a village consciousness, a sense that human beings are all connected and all in it together, wherever on the planet they may be. How else to explain Kenyans who lined up six-deep in front of electronics stores to watch footage of a war they had no soldiers fighting in? The full potential of the medium that televisionary Ted Turner bet the house on is just beginning to be realized. What we are seeing is not just the globalization of television but also, through television, the globalization...