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...among others. On the domestic scene, too, individuals like Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas came to mind. But the more we thought about it, the more compelling it seemed to focus on a theme that emerged time and again as major events unfolded this year: the amazing power of CNN to bind the world into a truly global village...
...THAT THE bombs began to fall on Baghdad, Gilbert Lavoie, press secretary to Canada's Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, telephoned his counterpart Marlin Fitzwater at the White House. "Marlin said, 'Hi, what are you doing?' " Lavoie recalls, "and I said, 'I'm doing the same thing you are -- watching CNN...
...foreign ministers. It has become the common frame of reference for the world's power elite. Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush and Saddam Hussein -- the headline sparring partners of the year just past -- are all alert watchers. What a computer message can accomplish within an office, CNN achieves around the clock, around the globe: it gives everyone the same information, the same basis for discussion, at the same moment. That change in communication has in turn affected journalism, intelligence gathering, economics, diplomacy and even, in the minds of some scholars, the very concept of what...
Only a glint of thought to its founder, Ted Turner, a dozen years ago, CNN is now the world's most widely heeded news organization. British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd insists on staying only at hotels that carry the network. Iraqi ministers Tariq Aziz and Nizar Hamdoon would not so much as lower the volume of the nonstop CNN in the background while granting interviews to John Wallach, foreign affairs editor of the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau -- not even, Wallach says, for the network's Hollywood Minute. When the name of his country was inadvertently omitted from a news quiz...
Singapore stockbrokers protested their government's politically inspired ban on private satellite dishes, arguing that access to instantaneous war news on CNN was vital for anticipating fluctuations in world financial markets. The terrorists who held Terry Anderson hostage in Lebanon used CNN as the vehicle to release a videotape of his appeal for help. CNN can be seen at the El Kabir Hotel in Tripoli, favored by Muammar Gaddafi's associates. It can also be seen at the Vatican, where Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, rises by 6 a.m. to watch and "know what...