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...commercials in the classroom raised a furor when it was introduced last year. It also inspired a shrewd countermove by Atlanta cable kingpin Ted Turner. Starting last September, Turner's Cable News Network began offering a classroom newscast of its own, without commercials. (Time Warner Inc. owns 18% of CNN's parent, Turner Broadcasting Co., and 50% of Whittle Communications.) The 15-minute show, CNN Newsroom, is telecast each morning at 3:45; schools with cable can tape it and play it back later in the day. Turner's nonprofit venture does not offer free equipment, but many cable operators...
...CNN's entry is both more substantial and more of a patchwork. Stories are a combination of fresh material and recycled pieces that have aired on CNN earlier in the day. A report on the Soviet elections, for example, began with narration by anchorman Brian Todd, who carefully defined such concepts as perestroika. But then came a report from Moscow correspondent Steve Hurst, who tossed out phrases like "party apparatchik" without further elaboration...
...story originated when Hurst, 42, a veteran Moscow reporter who joined CNN in 1988, spoke on the phone with what he described as a "well-informed and usually reliable Communist Party source." Hurst relayed his scoop to international managing editor Eason Jordan in CNN's Atlanta headquarters, and then to executive vice president Ed Turner (no relation to CNN founder Ted). The Moscow reporter would not identify his informant but told his bosses of several other stories in which the source had given accurate information. That persuaded Turner to run the story...
Hurst still stands by his report, pointing out that his source said only that Gorbachev was "considering" resignation: "I heard it from someone I believed, a long-standing source who has been right on every other occasion." But some editors and press monitors criticized CNN for going public with unconfirmed information. "It's a fundamental of journalism: one-source stories are bad," says Tom Goldstein, dean of the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley. "Generally we will not go with a single source," says Timothy Russert, senior vice president of news at NBC. "Of course, every news organization...
...problem of how to handle unconfirmed reports is common to all news | organizations, but it is especially acute for CNN. The network's instant worldwide reach (it is beamed officially to 89 countries and watched by many world leaders) has made CNN a conduit for governments and individuals who want to spread news -- or plant leaks. When the U.S. invaded Panama in December, the first Soviet protest was delivered not to the U.S. embassy but to a CNN crew. This role makes it essential that CNN be especially alert to the possibility of being manipulated. "We are well aware...