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...began to talk of the logical next step: a full hour of news. A quarter-century later, they are still just talking. But upstart Cable News Network, the 24-hour information service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head to head with the shows anchored by Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings...
Stacked up against those three white middle-aged men was an anchor team that made a striking symbolic statement. Washington-based Bernard Shaw, CNN's leading political correspondent, is black; Catherine Crier, based at the network's Atlanta headquarters, is a woman. Inadvertently, the choice of Crier, brought in from outside in preference to 150 in-house anchors and reporters, also made a depressing statement about the abiding importance of looks and packaging in TV news. A former college beauty-contest finalist and later an elected Texas judge, Crier, 34, has no journalism experience...
...excess of pleasantries and some outright glitches. On Wednesday a San Francisco earthquake survivor was so upset by watching footage of the disaster that she bolted from the studio before her scheduled appearance. On Thursday a promised survivor interview was finally bumped for lack of time. CNN uses the hour to do a few stories fully rather than pepper the viewer with here-and-gone 30-second items, but last week's feature pieces often seemed simply long, not deep. Moreover, the hour seemed deliberately broken into two repetitive half-hour shows, covering much the same topics in slightly different...
...more concerned about erosion of our audience from nonnews sources ((entertainment shows, VCRs and so on)) than competing news sources. I don't think this is going to make any difference to us." Of course, that's what the Big Three used to say, with misguided optimism, about CNN as a whole...
...Munich Olympics. Anchoring from Washington, Ted Koppel again proved that he is unsurpassed in the art of extracting facts from chaos. While CBS's Dan Rather was still stressing the "unconfirmed" nature of reports about the collapse of the Bay Bridge, ABC (along with the ever enterprising CNN) had already broadcast a shot of the fallen roadway...